I watched a 3.5 hour movie about a concrete church so we can answer the biggest question... is this building Brutalist? Today we get into Bauhaus design, the work of Farkas Molnár and Marcel Breuer, what it means to make a building versus a film, and what the architect Louis Kahn thought the purpose of architecture was.
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Sources:
East European Modernism: Architecture in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, & Poland Between the Wars, 1996
A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Architecture by Dennis Sharp, 1972
A Field Guide to American Houses by Virginia & Lee McAlester, 2000
Louis Kahn: Essential Texts - edited by Robert Twombley, 2003
Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer by Peter Blake, 1949
$126 Million FBI Building, Named for Hoover, Dedicated in Washington
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/10/01/80070423.html?pageNumber=95
For Sale: Boston City Hall
https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/image/438827238/
Photo of Farkas Molnar - https://jag.journalagent.com/megaron/pdfs/MEGARON-10437-ARTICLE-SABAN.pdf
Red Cube by Farkas Molnar - https://www.moma.org/collection/works/154379
PDF of Dárdai Balázs Lecture Notes on Farkas Molnar - https://vandoriskola.hu/sites/all/files/vandor-termuves-hu/tartalom/kurzus/2007_tavasz/marcius_30/dardai_balazs-molnar_farkas.pdf
Number of Bauhaus students - https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/arts/design/27webe.html
Brutalism Reddit - https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_3251_300090420.pdf
Range Interview with Brady Corbet - Interview with Brady Corbet
https://readrange.com/the-brutalist-brady-corbet-interview/