The Art & Architecture Building at Yale University.

I s there anything so invisible as that which was fashionable the day before yesterday? This is the blind spot through which every work of art and literature must pass before re-emerging as a distinct entity in history’s rear-view mirror. Or not, as the case may be; for much popular art, the blind spot means permanent oblivion. Such I thought would be the case with Brutalism, that postwar architectural movement distinguished by its raw concrete, burly masses, and general air of insolence. Its heyday was the mid-1960s, after which point Brutalism began to fall from favor; by the...