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Brutalismor New BrutalismTerm coined (1953) to describe Le Corbusier's use of monumental, sculptural shapes and raw, unfinished molded concrete, an approach that represented a departure from International Style. New Brutalist architects displayed a willful avoidance of polish and elegance in their buildings, exposing such structural elements as steel beams and precast concrete slabs to convey a stark, austere rectilinearity. See also Louis Kahn, James Stirling. brutalism an austere style of architecture characterized by emphasis on such structural materials as undressed concrete and unconcealed service pipes http://students.open.ac.uk/open2net/modernity/4_15.htm www.skyscrapers.com/re/en/ab/ds/pd/bu/ca/sy/mo/br How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| No metaphysics, no aristocratic preoccupation with elitist codes, this would truly be, as Banham called it in The New Brutalism, an architecture autre. Hipkins quotes Reyner Banham's definition of New Brutalism as an attempt to "make the whole conception of the building plain and comprehensible. |
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