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brutalism

noun

Etymology

From brutal + -ism. Popularized in 1954 by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson, from earlier Swedish nybrutalism (“New Brutalism”), after French béton brut (“raw concrete”), the material favored by Le Corbusier.

  1. derived from béton brut — “raw concrete”
  2. derived from nybrutalism — “New Brutalism”

Definitions

  1. Brutal, violent behaviour

    Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.

    • Instances of misguidance like the ones given, and at least recognized in retrospect, in fascism, racism, and ecological brutalism, are also to be sensed by religious communication in other contexts.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Brutalism.

    • Art deco is one of the first truly modern styles and a precursor to the more streamlined and simpler lines of later styles, such as the international style, art moderne, and even brutalism.
    • On the face of it the pair also seemed to plunder much of their muscular brutalism in the building of the church from late Le Corbusier but they have consistently, and independently, rejected any Corbusian or even post-Corbusian label.

  3. A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of…

    A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA