Brutalist
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An architect who used this style
- 2 Someone that follows brutalism.
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
"[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain."
Example
More examples"[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain."
Etymology
From brutal + -ist.
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