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Jess Deva

Jess Deva

Jes Deaver, AIA — Award-winning architect, writer, and filmmaker exploring the intersection of science fiction and architecture.

Jul 19, 2026

15:37
-increasingly popular in the last few years, but yeah.
15:39
Sure.
15:40
Uh, brutalism sort of stemmed from Le Corbusier's, uh, béton brut, which I'm sure Amy could probably talk about a lot more in a mo- lot more nuance, but, uh, it, it's this idea of raw concrete, um, being, being used.
15:53
And you see a lot of it, um, in architecture that's made of concrete.
15:58
There's a lot-- There's some steel.
16:00
It's usually, uh, a, an out of proportion scale to the human body, so it's very large, imposing.
16:06
But what a lot of people don't realize is that brutalism was very different across the world.

27 MINS LATER

43:33
Um, and so it's thinking very much about how we, um, live within that future, not necessarily what the form of that future might be.

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