Concrete doesn’t apologize. Neither does this book. The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors arrived in 2020 as a 568-page, 5.6-pound argument that Brutalism was never a mistake—it was a mission. Pick it up and you feel the weight immediately, both physically and intellectually. This isn’t a coffee table decoration. It’s a reckoning with […]

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The Alewife MBTA station parking garage has been a hulking brutalist presence in North Cambridge since 1985. The garage was designed to serve park-and-ride commuters from Boston's suburbs who would then ride the MBTA Red Line into Cambridge and Boston proper. Sections have been closed or dis-used for decades.

On the west side of the garage is a spiral car-ramp running from the street-level all…