The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in Washington, D.C, designed by prominent modernist architect Marcel Breuer.

Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp talks with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones and Brady Corbet to get to the bottom of 'The Brutalist.' ...

If the protagonist's name sounds familiar, that's because Laszlo Toth was the Hungarian-born Australian geologist who took a hammer to Michelangelo's Pietà in 1972.

ADRIEN BRODY: (As Laszlo Toth, crying). MONDELLO: The cousin takes him to his furniture store, where Toth, who's an architect and designer, will sleep on a cot in a storeroom and work on projects.

Judy Becker, a production designer who has worked on films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Carol (2015), brought the universe of Toth to life. While Becker isn’t an architect, her job, she ...

The protagonist is Laszlo Toth (played exceptionally well by Adrien Brody), a Bauhaus-educated modern architect. He is also more importantly Hungarian and Jewish, recently freed from Buchenwald ...

Architects may groan at the depiction of their profession in “The Brutalist,” an enormously ambitious, epically scaled film about an imaginary Hungarian architect, László Toth. Played by ...

The building’s interior proportions – odd, impractical – are vital, to the point the architect refuses to budge when he’s advised to change them. “I took it further than anyone knows ...