Brady Corbet riled the architecture world by playing fast and loose with his interpretation of brutalism, the Bauhaus, postwar immigration and the basic process of architecture itself.

The film has aroused this much ire because, for all its claims to be fictional, it is so clearly based on a real historical figure: Marcel Lajos Breuer. Like Corbet’s fictional László Tóth (played by a tortured, quivering Adrien Brody), Breuer was a Hungarian-Jewish architect who trained at the Bauhaus in Germany before emigrating to the US, where he became a prominent proponent of brutalism...

The Guardian. Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist