Brutalist Architecture

ブルータリズム建築 / 1950s–1970s / Style / Modern Architecture

The postwar ethic of public building that shows raw concrete — béton brut — as it is and hides neither structure nor services. Bound to the welfare state's ideals, and now the object of preservation campaigns.

Raw exposed concrete / Massive volumes / Exposed structure / Repeating units

Brutalist Architecture — バービカン・エステート（CC BY-SA 4.0） — バービカン・エステート（CC BY-SA 4.0）／ベルリンのユニテ・ダビタシオン（CC BY-SA 3.0）

Brutalist Architecture — ベルリンのユニテ・ダビタシオン（CC BY-SA 3.0） — バービカン・エステート（CC BY-SA 4.0）／ベルリンのユニテ・ダビタシオン（CC BY-SA 3.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for: Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type: Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition: Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material: Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution: Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study: Le Corbusier's béton brut / the Smithsons' New Brutalism / demolition and the preservation movement

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