Window on UMass - Travels to the Southcoast of Massachusetts - March 6 - March 23, 2025

Windows on UMass 

An exhibit, symposium, walking tours and a reception from Oct. 7 - Dec. 17, 2024 at the Olver Design Building at UMass Amherst.

Breuer Window: Take a Closer Look at Brutalist Architecture 

An art installation that presents a 3/4 scale reconstruction of the Lincoln Campus Center hotel window façade panel, allowing the public to experience the beauty and formal grandeur of a Marcel Breuer’s architecture.  This event occurs during Family Weekend at UMass Amherst and is organized in collaboration with the following:  UMass Fine Arts Center Art Walk (3pm – 6pm); the Joy of Art After Party with Laudable productions (6pm – 9pm); and the UMass Student Life Pond Fire (6pm – 9pm). Installation designed and constructed by by Colleen Tully ‘G24. 

Self-Guided Virtual Walking Tour of Paul Rudolph's Brutalist UMass Dartmouth Campus

Virtual Tour - Paul Rudolph's Modernist Campus

Library of Congress features the 

Paul Rudolph's Modernist Virtual Tour

"Primary Archive Guide"

Docomomo US (National Conference) held in New Haven, Connecticut

Paul Rudolph's Modernist Urbanist Center: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, June 23, 2023

Dr. Anna Dempsey, Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts, is the Co-Principal Investigator (PI) for the UMassBrut grant. Allison J. Cywin, Librarian and Director of the Visual & Media Literacy Hub (VML) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

UMassBrut Honored with 2022 Docomomo Modernism in America Award of Excellence in the Inventory/Survey Category

UMassBRUT was honored with a 2022 Docomomo Modernism in America Award of Excellence in the Inventory/Survey Category and, on November 3rd, six members of the Executive Committee traveled to New York to accept the award in person.

UMassBrut a Year in Review

More the 200 attended the 

UMass Amherst 2022 Homecoming Event

 UMass Brut Illuminating Brutalism

 A Project Art experience with Mark Millstein Professor & Artist of Art & Design at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. As part of the UMass Amherst Homecoming Weekend,  UMassBrut organized a

projection mapping event with the Bromery Center for the Arts celebrating

our Brutalist architecture and featuring artwork by a UMass Dartmouth

professor and UMass Amherst graduate student, Lincoln Nemetz Carlson.

UMassBrut receives Docomomo U.S. 2022 Modernism in American Architecture Award of Excellence

The award recognizes the testament to the dedication and foresight of those who recognize the value of preserving our modern  architectural heritage. 

Award ceremony is Thursday, November 3, 2022 in New York City 

UMassBrut Symposium 

Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present, and Future

Press Releases 

https://www.umassd.edu/news/2021/umass-dartmouth-amherst-symposium-brutalist-architecture.html

https://www.architects.org/events/380077/2021/10/22/umass-brut-brutalism-the-public-university-past-present-and-future

https://dailycollegian.com/2021/10/its-brutal-out-here-umass-celebrates-its-controversial-architecture/

https://www.sah.org/jobs-and-careers/opportunities/recent-opportunities/2021/10/22/default-calendar/brutalism-the-public-university-past-present-and-future

UMassBrut Logo Receives Two International Design Awards 

Michelle Bowers 

Graphic Designer and Associate Professor of Art + Design, UMass Dartmouth, receives two prestigious design awards for her design of the UMass BRUT logo and campaign

Society of Typographic Arts, STA 100 2021, International Typographic Excellence Awards  

https://100.sta-chicago.org/winners/2021/umass-brut

United Designs Alliance 2022 International Design Competition, Signs, Systems and Letterform Marks, Silver Award

http://uniteddesigns.org/ssl-2022-awards/

UMass ScholarWorks 

2021 Symposium Proceedings 

Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present and Future Symposium 2021