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I agree. On reading 'brutalist', I thought it would be grey, or purely black and white, more "concrete" and slightly depressing.
by hyperorca 3y ago
I agree. On reading 'brutalist', I thought it would be grey, or purely black and white, more "concrete" and slightly depressing.
- chatmasta 3y agoI’ve always thought of brutalism as the ultimate “function over form.” It’s brutal in the sense that it “brutally” strips away the form until all that’s left is the function. It’s like minimalism without the vanity.
- tmountain 3y agoI have been operating with the same working definition for a long time. I think the author is misusing the term.
- unavoidable 3y agoBrutalism actually comes from the French word for concrete, "beton brut"; not English "brutality". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism
- retrac 3y agoUnfinished concrete, specifically. I would translate "brut" as "bare" or "unrefined" here. English brutality is related to French brut, but in French it means more like crude, unrefined, raw, blunt, with no particular sense of animalistic or violent.
- omneity 3y agoBrut is raw. Brute or brutal is related to violence.
- bongobingo1 3y agoPerhaps we should be right-click->view-source'ing for the true brutalist experience. e: ah, in this very thread https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
- sph 3y agoSee also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut
- wongarsu 3y agoIt's called brutalism because brute is the French word for concrete. To many being made out of concrete would be a defining feature of brutalism, to others it's the exposed building materials without façade.
- mikestew 3y agoIt's called brutalism because brute is the French word for concrete. Umm...the French word you're looking for is "beton". The rest of the thread has plenty of (correct) definitions of "brut" for reference.