Forming a Distinct Identity: How Brutalism Shaped American Architecture Education

By the mid-nineteenth century, American universities began to distinguish architecture from civil engineering and the applied sciences formally. Architecture was emerging as a discipline defined by both technical competence and conceptual inquiry, spatial imagination, and cultural agency. As this disciplinary identity evolved in the postwar decades, its built expression coalesced into the emerging architectural language of Brutalism.

Forming a Distinct Identity: How Brutalism Shaped American Architecture Education
Yale Art + Architecture Building. Image Courtesy of  gwathmey siegel & associates architects Yale Art + Architecture Building. Image Courtesy of gwathmey siegel & associates architects

By the mid-nineteenth century, American universities began to distinguish architecture from civil engineering and the applied sciences formally. Architecture was emerging as a discipline defined by both technical competence and conceptual inquiry, spatial imagination, and cultural agency. As this disciplinary identity evolved in the postwar decades, its built expression coalesced into the emerging architectural language of Brutalism.

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