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Consider why the term applied to the style is brutalism, and how people behave when in "brutal" surroundings. Contrast with, say, the arts and crafts architectu
by ctdonath 11y ago
Consider why the term applied to the style is brutalism, and how people behave when in "brutal" surroundings. Contrast with, say, the arts and crafts architectural style (see Frank Lloyd Wright) which is comparable (stark, concrete) yet differs in a way which garners a broad enthusiastic following and is considered inspirational.
- matthewmacleod 11y agoThe reason the term is 'brutalism' is because it's derived from the French béton brut – i.e. raw concrete. I'm not a French speaker, but I understand that the implications in that language aren't quite the same as in English.
- jfoks 11y agoWikipedia disagrees with that: "The term "brutalism" was originally coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth in Uppsala, designed in 1949 by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm.[citation needed] He originally used the Swedish-language term nybrutalism (new brutalism), which was picked up by a group of visiting English architects, including Michael Ventris. In England, the term was further adopted by architects Alison and Peter Smithson.[3][4] The term gained wide currency when the British architectural historian Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterise a somewhat recently established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.[4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History