UMass Celebrates Its Brutalist Architecture With Two Events

On Saturday, October 29 UMassBRUT, a campaign to raise awareness of UMass Amherst and UMass Dartmouth Brutalist architecture, is holding two events at the Amherst campus.

At 2 p.m., History of Art and Architecture Professor Timothy Rohan will lead a Modernist Architecture Campus Tour.  The walk starts at the lobby of the Lincoln Campus Center and will view buildings such as the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, Herter Hall, Whitmore Hall, Tobin Hall, and the iconic W.E.B. DuBois Library. The tour is free and open to the public.

In the evening at 7 p.m., the Fine Arts Center will be the site of a multimedia show entitled Illuminating Brutalism: A Projection Art and Music Experience. The event will feature an animated light show projected onto the large scale south façade of the Bromery Center. The show is designed by artist and UMass Dartmouth Professor, Mark Millstein, and UMass Amherst graduate architecture student, Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson. The public is welcome free of charge. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs or blankets, and to dress warmly.

UMassBrut has also created a self-guided UMass Amherst Brutalist Walking Tour supported by a website and interactive map and offers a printable Brutalist Campus Guide.