brutalists
Béton brut devotees
Brutalists are practitioners or advocates of brutalism, an architectural style characterized by massive concrete structures, raw materials, and stark geometric forms.
The style emerged in the mid-20th century and remains divisive—admirers see honesty in its unadorned surfaces, while critics find it cold and oppressive: The brutalists who designed this campus clearly valued function over warmth.
Solid building mixture
- rawIn original state
- exposedOut in open
- monumentalExceptionally large or significant
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
massive · unfinished · fortress · slab · block · tower · civic · utilitarian
One favoring bare essentials
- starkSevere and unadorned
- rawIn original state
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
- harshUnpleasantly severe or rough
industrial · utilitarian · austere · severe · stripped · unadorned · functional · cold
Experimental rock after '77
- industrialOf factories and production
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
- confrontationalInclined toward hostile encounters
- abrasiveRough enough to erode
political · working-class · raw · unpolished · angular · British · DIY · punk
concrete
Solid building mixture
- rawIn original state
- exposedOut in open
- monumentalExceptionally large or significant
geometric · massive · unfinished · fortress · slab · block · tower · civic · utilitarian · angular
minimalist
One favoring bare essentials
- starkSevere and unadorned
- rawIn original state
- uncompromisingRefusing to yield ground
harsh · industrial · utilitarian · austere · severe · stripped · unadorned · functional · cold · imposing
post-punk
Experimental rock after '77
- industrialOf factories and production
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
- confrontationalInclined toward hostile encounters
abrasive · political · working-class · raw · unpolished · angular · British · DIY · punk · noise
brutalistsneoclassicists
Revivers of Greco-Roman aesthetics
classicists · traditionalists · postmodernists · minimalists
- Brutalist architectureStark monumental concrete design