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.

We watch Toth return to his Bauhaus roots; first, as a furniture designer for his cousin’s shop, where he goes from building modernist desks to being commissioned to redesign the library of a ...

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.' ...

Corbet’s depiction of architecture as a profession is painfully dated, based on a handful of 20th century messianic figures who sought not just to make buildings, but to remake the world ...

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 ...

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.

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. That Corbet would name his ...

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 ...