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Pennsylvania's rich architectural history is in the spotlight with the Academy Award-nominated film The Brutalist, which tells the story of an immigrant architect’s journey to design his first ...
The cousins are hired by a wealthy client, Harry Lee Van Buren (Jow Alwyn) to design and build a new home library as a surprise for his father, industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce).
Its connection to Brutalist architecture, more metaphorical than literal, adds a layer of meaning that invites reflection on how the spaces we build reflect our individual and collective psychologies.
Complete with T-square, charcoal sketches and cardboard models, Toth works on his Brutalist design, creating — over three and a half hours of movie time — a building of minimalist simplicity.
For anyone involved in architecture, it’s no surprise that a film focusing on a visionary architect and his profession demands the epic dimensions of cinematogr ...
Architecture critic Mark Lamster on why the swishy, $3 billion colossus is a roll of the dice on civic transformation. Don’t expect a showpiece, but it’s a big improvement for DFW and Dallas.
It fluffed it. Edwin Heathcote is an architect and writer who has been architecture and design critic of the Financial Times since 1999.
Adrien Brody has won the Best Actor Oscar award for his portrayal of Bauhaus-trained László Toth, who has survived the Holocaust as a Hungarian Jew after running a thriving architecture practice ...
The Brutalist is a popular frontrunner for film award shows, but architects are not convinced by its portrayal of the Brutalism design style. (Image: Universal Pictures) Surprisingly, almost no ...