Crawford Hall at Yale. The Louis Micheels House in Westport. The Babbidge Library at UConn. Hotel Marcel in New Haven.

Connecticut is dotted with stunning examples of brutalism, the divisively modernist and minimalist style of architecture.

With Brady Corbet’s epic drama, The Brutalist, nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, we take a long look at brutalism.

GUESTS:

• Bruce Redman Becker: Founder and director of Becker + Becker in Westport, Connecticut
• Barnabas Calder: Head of the History of Architecture Research Cluster at the University of Liverpool and the author of Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
• Philip Kennicott: Senior art and architecture critic at The Washington Post

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