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**qwerty1** · 06-29-2010, 08:04 PM

Why is it called brutalism?

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The English architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term in 1953, from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete," a phrase used by Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete with which he constructed many of his post-WWII buildings. The term gained wide currency when the British architectural critic Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterize a by then established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.

06-29-2010, 08:04 PM	#20
qwerty1 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 622 Senior Member	Why is it called brutalism? From Wiki: The English architects Alison and Peter Smithson coined the term in 1953, from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete," a phrase used by Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete with which he constructed many of his post-WWII buildings. The term gained wide currency when the British architectural critic Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterize a by then established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.
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