Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe fled Nazi Germany, but not all of them went to the US.
Also known as the “Soviet Ufo”, the Buzludzha Memorial House was inaugurated by the Bulgarian communist regime in 1981. After years of looting, degradation, and public outrage, there is finally hope ...
So, what is Brutalism and why did it even matter enough to warrant an embargo? To put it in simple terms, Brutalist architecture makes use of exposed, unpainted concrete or brick, with an emphasis ...
The Brutalism set is inspired by the massive utopian forms and material palette of the Brutalist architects, who used raw concrete as their material of choice. Blockitecture® Brutalism includes 6 ...
PARIS — Brutalist architecture, or brutalism, is an architectural style that emerged ... Inaugurated in 1981, the Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, also known as the Buzludzha Monument ...
The 1969 blaze may have been the result of arson by students protesting against the Vietnam war; it may have been to do with departmental politics; it was possibly an outcry against Brutalism itself.