He wrote a letter in 1962 to a fellow architect in which he said: "Beton brut was born at the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles where there were 80 contractors

He wrote a letter in 1962 to a fellow architect in which he said: "Beton brut was born at the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles where there were 80 contractors and such a massacre of concrete that one simply could not dream of making useful transitions by means of grouting. I decided: let us leave all that brute. I called it 'beton brute' [bare concrete]. The English immediately jumped on the piece and treated me (Ronchamp and Monastery of La Tourette) as 'Brutal' -- beton brutal -- all things considered, the brute is Corbu. They called that 'the new brutality'. My friends and admirers take me for the brute of brutal concrete!" [1][2] [1] https://f50collective.com/2016/09/19/brutalist-architecture/ https://f50collective.com/2016/09/19/brutalist-architecture/ [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=b-OUxSelykIC&lpg=PA18&ots=vb60zelHH5&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=b-OUxSelykIC&lpg=PA18&ots=...