Adrien Brody plays an architect with grand visions. We need that ambition.
The famous cemetery's modern vertical structure will offer a resting place for 50,000 more deceased residents.
Toth is hired by a wealthy industrialist to build a massive community center in his "brutalist" style – a form of architecture that's light on decoration and heavy on concrete. To get Toth just ...
Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor, but both revolve around a putative architectural genius who would bestow his grand ...
Given the trope of creativity, radical individuality and struggle, it’s almost inevitable that “The Brutalist” echoes another, far more noxious architectural narrative, Ayn Rand’s “The ...