Brutalism does not lie, does not cheat. His first four letters even less. ” Raw “. They alone summarize the state of mind of those who, after the Second World War, built architectural masterpieces according to a very specific principle: let’s hide anything, let’s show the material as it is.
Were these architects as visionary as the Hungarian is László Toth, interpreted by the now double Oscar winner Adrien Brody in the film “The Brutalist”, released in cinemas on February 12? Maybe. What is certain is that this trend from architectural modernism of the 1950s and 1960s now finds a certain echo. Instagram accounts dedicated to these massive and gross buildings – but especially not brutal – bring together lovers of an era that they have not known.