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- noun Brutal, violent behaviour;
savagery .
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It is an important example of the modern architectural form known as "brutalism"-- a fortress-like concrete "boxy structure" with few windows.
Archive 2007-12-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007
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It is an important example of the modern architectural form known as "brutalism"-- a fortress-like concrete "boxy structure" with few windows.
DC Church Unwillingly Gets Historical Status Howard M. Friedman 2007
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The angry young husband-and-wife partnership of Alison and Peter Smithson banished cosiness in a style known as brutalism.
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The angry young husband-and-wife partnership of Alison and Peter Smithson banished cosiness in a style known as brutalism.
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Even the 'brutalism' of New City Hall seemed somewhat subdued, and to make more sense in this new vision of Toronto.
blogTO 2009
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The assignment had been to explain how the architecture complemented the much older surrounding buildings, which I tried manfully but incredulously to do, and so I was surprised to read this Wiki critique of "brutalism":
InstaPunk 2009
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Truss beams and heavily-laid concrete formed the desert dome, which radiates a sort of tongue-in-cheek brutalism that screams 1960s American modernism both inside and out.
World Home Day Collection: Around the world in seven rooms! 2009
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Brutality and brutalism - moral, intellectual and physical - can be the only consequences of any imposition of respect.
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Concrete brutalism apart, the atmosphere is weirdly akin to that perfect stillness you get in the countryside.
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Truss beams and heavily-laid concrete formed the desert dome, which radiates a sort of tongue-in-cheek brutalism that screams 1960s American modernism both inside and out.
World Home Day Collection: Around the world in seven rooms! 2009
palooka commented on the word brutalism
"An architectural style of the mid-20th century characterized by massive or monolithic forms, usually of poured concrete and typically unrelieved by exterior decoration." AHD
March 17, 2008