Socialist classicism gave out to glass and steel as I arrived at Potsdamer Platz. Once the beating heart of a pre-war Berlin, ...

He pointed out that there were no significant resistence movements in Bulgaria during the communist dictatorship — in contrast to popular uprisings seen in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956 ...

But what about all the brutalist confections? Does the man in red steer his sleigh clear of big blocks of textured concrete? Noel Edmonds has clearly been a good boy... (made us feel a bit ill ...

Instead, the curriculum is less about learning about reality and is heavy on propagandizing children against capitalism and towards communism. American society teaches hatred and distrust of ...

The Brutalist, which is directed by Brady Corbet, is a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting to rebuild a life in America. Inspired by the Jean-Louis Cohen's book Architecture in ...

NYU is among the top 10 largest private landlords in New York City, a position bolstered by tax exemptions that save the ...

French studio Ciguë drew on Greek modernism when creating the interior of Ace Hotel and Swim Club Athens, which features vintage furniture and specially commissioned artworks by local artists. Located ...

Mendes da Rocha (1928–2021) began his career in São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1950s as a member of the “Paulist brutalist” avant-garde. He received a degree in architecture in 1954, opened his office in ...

Upper Lawn was Alison and Peter Smithson’s brutalist “camp box” in the Wiltshire countryside ... We have an interest and a passion for architecture, so we knew of the Smithsons, but our knowledge was ...

Phaidon, for example, has given us The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture (7.1kg; 46 x 29 x 6cm) and Le Corbusier Le Grand (9.2kg; 44 x 34 x 8cm), one of the coeditors of which, ...