Brutalism

brutalism English thumb|upright|Buffalo City Court Building, built 1971–1974 by Pfohl, Roberts, and Biggie, is a classic example of Brutalism's imposing aesthetic Alternative forms en brutalism Etymology From en brutal ism. Popularized in 1954 by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson, from earlier en sv nybrutalism New Brutalism,The Guardian 2014-02-13 Jonathan Meades The incredible hulks: Jonathan Meades' A-Z of brutalism https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonathan-meades-brutalism-a-z The term nybrutalism, new brutalism, was the jocular coinage of architect Hans Asplund. He applied it to a small house in Uppsala, in his native Sweden, designed in 1949 by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm and built of bricks. after en fr béton brut raw concrete, the material favored by Le Corbusier. Noun - en architecture A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process. en New Brutalism en 2000 Katherine Shonfield Walls Have Feelings: architecture, film and the city Taylor & Francis (Routledge) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SjaDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=%22Brutalism%22%7C%22Brutalisms%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHmYet3abXAhVKl5AKHeurBQ0Q6AEIugEwIA#v=onepage&q=%22Brutalism%22%7C%22Brutalisms%22&f=false 20 In similar spirit, Nigel Henderson, a member of the Independent Group's Brutalist core, exhibited black and white photographs of the East End at the 1953 ICA show Parallel of Life and Art which stressed the unsanitised reality of everyday life: Peter Smithson's defence of Brutalism through the categorical rhetoric of objectivity and truth, quoted above, echoes Anderson. 2004, B. M. Boyle, Brutalism, R. Stephen Sennott (editor), Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Volume 1: A-F, Taylor & Francis (Fitzroy Dearborn), page 181, Nonetheless, despite its radical appearance, Brutalism could claim, if not legitimacy, at least ancestry in pre-World War II modernism. en 2005 Rodney Bolt Bavaria Cadogan Guides https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1bBW4_kY1HcC&pg=PA26&dq=%22Brutalism%22%7C%22Brutalisms%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9hOHc56bXAhWHEpAKHfOdDOU4ZBDoAQinATAW#v=onepage&q=%22Brutalism%22%7C%22Brutalisms%22&f=false 26 The trend towards Brutalism - an austere style that had its origins in the Bauhaus and is characterized by its emphasis on the building materials (especially bare concrete) and unconcealed service pipes - did little to improve the situation. Derived terms en Brutalist Translations style of modernist architecture Catalan: ca brutalisme m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 粗獷主義 cūguǎngzhǔyì, cmn 粗野主義 cūyězhǔyì Finnish: fi brutalismi, fi betonibrutalismi German: de Brutalismus m Italian: it brutalismo m Japanese: ja ブルータリズム burutalizumu Macedonian: mk брутализам m Polish: pl brutalizm m Portuguese: pt brutalismo m Spanish: es brutalismo m Thai: th บรูทัลลิสม์ bruu-tâl-lí-sʉ̂m Welsh: cy Briwtaliaeth f References Further reading Brutalist architecture List of Brutalist structures Anagrams en abilmrstu submitral