Brutalist architecture Archives

Not So Brutal After All: Misconceptions About Brutalist Architecture

February 9, 2024
Written by Kye Cardinalis and Featured image by Warren LeMay

If you want to start a lively architectural debate, bring up brutalist architecture or brutalism. Defined by blocky concrete forms with exposed utilities and creative use of both symmetrical and…

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exterior of Everson Museum surrounded by Syracuse

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Retro Road Trip

The Everson Museum of Art: An Invitation to Explore

October 27, 2023
Written by Kye Cardinalis and Featured image by Daniel Lobo

In Syracuse, New York, there is a building that stands out from the more mundane structures around it. If it wasn’t on your original itinerary while visiting the city, you…

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The Plummer House: MCM in the Valley

September 3, 2023
Written by Michelle Mastro and Photography by Alex Gray

This California home, known as the Plummer House, offers a unique take on mid mod style. Experts in Mid Century Modern style will tell you that MCM expresses itself differently…

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exterior shot of the UW Nuclear Reactor Building

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Retro Road Trip

The Nuclear Reactor Building at UW: A Building Lost, a Battle Won

March 20, 2022
Written by Kye Cardinalis and Featured image photography by Washington Trust/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The University of Washington (UW) in Seattle is a veritable treasure trove of Brutalist architecture, home to the spectacular Red Square and structures like Kane Hall and Odegaard Undergraduate Library.…

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Tucson’s Kirby Lockard House Designated a Historic Landmark

Sometimes preservation takes a village. For the Kirby Lockard house in Tucson, Arizona, it took Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation, City Council and mayor to designate the 1968 Brutalist home a historic landmark in late September 2020.

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