The raw, polarising world of brutalist architecture has a cult following, and it’s in the spotlight with Brady Corbet’s epic film The Brutalist — starring Adrien Brody as Bauhaus-trained architect László Tóth — winning four Bafta awards on Sunday.
British architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term “New Brutalism” (originating from the French béton brut, meaning “raw concrete”) to describe not just an aesthetic style, but a philosophy centred on honesty in materials, structure and function.
