Ask Hans Asplund: > The term Nybrutalism (New Brutalism)[16] was coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth, a modern brick home in Up

Ask Hans Asplund: > The term Nybrutalism (New Brutalism)[16] was coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth, a modern brick home in Uppsala, designed in January 1950[9] by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm.[10] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History > Asplund's neologism caught on in Stockholm and was picked up by British architectural pilgrims to that city, among them Oliver Cox, Graeme Shankland and Michael Ventris, the decoder of Linear B (an ancient script seen as one of the great linguistic riddles). Although the epithet signified nothing, or maybe because it signified nothing, it was taken up as a slogan of defiance or something by arty young British architects, none artier than Alison and Peter Smithson and their representative on Earth, Reyner Banham, an architectural critic whose prose may cause all but the entirely insentient to wince. * https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonathan-meades-brutalism-a-z https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonatha... Or Reyner Banham why he chose that name in his 1955 essay: > They have created the idea of a Modern Movement – this was known even before Basil Taylor took up arms against false historicism – and beyond that they have offered a rough classification of the ‘isms’ which are the thumb-print of Modernity into two main types: One, like Cubism, is a label, a recognition tag, applied by critics and historians to a body of work which appears to have certain consistent principles running through it, whatever the relationship of the artists; the other, like Futurism, is a banner, a slogan, a policy consciously adopted by a group of artists, whatever the apparent similarity or dissimilarity of their products. And it is entirely characteristic of the New Brutalism – our first native art-movement since the New Art-History arrived here-that it should confound these categories and belong to both at once. * https://www.architectural-review.com/archive/the-new-brutalism-by-reyner-banham https://www.architectural-review.com/archive/the-new-brutali... It opens with an epigraph by Le Corbusier: > L’Architecture, c’est, avec des matières bruts, ètablir des rapports émouvants’rnouvants. (Architecture is, with raw materials, establishing moving and moving relationships.) See also: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béton_brut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béton_brut