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Boston Government Service Center, Boston (Paul Rudolph, 1962–71) [2]: 67 Braintree High School, Braintree (1972) Campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (Le Corbusier, (1962) [2]: 61 Countway Library - Harvard University, Boston [15]
This stunning church designed by Fritz G. Mayr was built in 1976 and is one of the most popular Brutalist buildings. Wotruba Church showcases blocks of a variety of sizes but still details the ...
The complex is made up of two connected Brutalist buildings: the Charles F. Hurley Building and the Erich Lindemann Building, as well as a courtyard; sometimes included is the newer, 1998-built, Edward W. Brooke Courthouse. The Hurley and Lindemann buildings are designated Category Two buildings in Boston, holding major significance for the city.
Pages in category "Brutalist architecture in Massachusetts" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The dominant feature of Government Center is the enormous, imposing, and brutalist Boston City Hall, [4] designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built in the 1960s as part of Boston's first large urban renewal scheme. While considered by some to have architectural merit, the building is not universally admired, and is sharply unpopular among ...
Additionally, in a 1976 Bicentennial poll of historians and architects regarding the United States' greatest buildings, sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, Boston City Hall received the sixth-most mentions. When Boston's Mayor Menino stirred controversy in 2010 with a discussion of selling City Hall (see below), opponents of the ...
But shooting overseas — in the case of Brady Corbet’s historical epic “The Brutalist,” doubling Hungary for Philadelphia in the 1940s — made for a completely different challenge.
The college was previously known as the Boston Architectural Center. By 1965, the BAC had developed a continuing education program to serve the broader community. In the mid-1960s, it was forced out of its Somerset Street building and purchased a three-story brick building at 320 Newbury Street. The structure was a former stable and was solid ...