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Nope. Brutalism refers to concrete, full stop. The author clearly hasn't done due diligence.

• Fricken 5y ago
  It's originally a tongue-in-cheek term, first popularized by British Architects Allison and Peter Smithson. The double entendre was not lost on them. Architects have a sense of humour too.
  • jonnycomputer 5y ago
    Yes, there is no reason that English speakers would adopt "brutalist" merely because some French speaking people used the word "brut" to describe it. People are thinking too narrowly about how and why words are used, names given and popularized.