BRUTAL

my las palmas neighbor clayton webster is fascinated with BRUTAL ARCHITECTURE.
Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architecture.


The British 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-World War II 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 somewhat recently established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.