Brute Box
Brute Box is a vinyl-wrapped traffic box installation comprised of colorful architectural collages which reimagine the brutalist icons of Southwest Washington D.C. Located at the busy intersection of 7th ST and Maryland Ave, Brute Box reframes how we see these buildings: using color as a means to accentuate the rich textures and bold geometries which popularized this style of modernism in the 1950's and beyond.
In addition to it's objective of bringing more color to a gray urban environment, the piece acts as a wayfinding device showing viewers which buildings exist if they continue walking in that direction.
Thank you to the Southwest Business Improvement District (SWBID) for making this work possible.
Hubert H. Humphrey Building (1977) Architect - Marcel Breuer
Hirshhorn Museum (1969) Architect - Gordon Bunshaft
Robert C. Weaver (1965) Architect - Marcel Breuer, Herbert Beckhard
L'Enfant Station (1976) Architect - Harry Weese
DC Metro (1976) Architect - Harry Weese