style perspective — brutalist |
|
Brutalist architecture is a style which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. The term was created in 1953 from the French béton brut, or "raw concrete", a phrase used by Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete of his post-World War II buildings. Brutalist buildings usually are formed with striking repetitive angular geometries, and, where concrete is used, often revealing the texture of the wooden forms used for the in-situ casting. Although concrete is the material most widely associated with Brutalist architecture, not all Brutalist buildings are formed from concrete. Instead, a building may achieve its Brutalist quality through a rough, blocky appearance, and the expression of its structural materials, forms, and services on its exterior.
Continue for complete information on the Brutalist style 
|
|
|
