Editor’s Note: Timothy Brittain-Catlin is a Reader in Architecture at the University of Kent, and a trustee and deputy chairman of the Twentieth Century Society. The views expressed in this commentary ...

Critics have called the Vaillancourt Fountain an "eyesore," while supporters say it's an important chapter in the city's ...

Outside, a private entertainment paradise awaits with a vanishing-edge pool, sitting areas with fire pits, a drop-down screen ...

Brutalism has a bad name. That may be, in part, because it is a bad name. This polarizing architectural style of the 1950s and '60s is the subject of the the film "The Brutalist," nominated for 10 ...

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The average age of a building being demolished in the 1950s was 111 years, according to urban economist Richard Barras’s book, Building Cycles. By the early 2000s, the age was down to 60 years. That ...

It's a real mystery why a design style called Brutalism didn't catch on. If you haven't heard of the style, you might think, "Hmm, sounds nasty. Mean. Cruel. You know, brutal." In my opinion, you'd be ...

If there was any lingering doubt that Brutalism — the architectural style derided for everything the name implies — was back in fashion, the “Atlas of Brutalist Architecture” quashes it with a ...

In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe noted that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a ...