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Is The Brutalist even Brutalist?

Kendra Gaylord 74,076 2 months ago
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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. Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kendragaylord And follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kendraggg/ 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/

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