For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, audiences are confronted with a still image. Adrien Brody, as immigrant architect Laszlo Tóth, stands with his bride outside a Budapest synagogue, ...

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 ...

BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: When Laszlo Toth staggers up to the ship's deck after his transatlantic voyage in 1947, leaving concentration camps behind, the first thing he sees is the Statue of Liberty.

Judy Becker discusses crafting László Toth’s modernist on-screen universe—including his buildings. A still from Brutalism is architecture’s frenemy—beloved for its stylistic concrete ...