Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BRUTALISM

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Definitions of BRUTALISM

1. Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.
2. (architecture) A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.
3. (architecture) Alternative letter-case form of Brutalism..

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Examples of Using BRUTALISM in a Sentence

• Despite the original vision not being fully implemented, the library gained architectural praise as an icon of British brutalism with its stark use of concrete, bold geometry, inverted ziggurat sculptural form and monumental scale.
• Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism, especially in architectural and urban theory.
• December – Reyner Banham introduces the term "New Brutalism" into English print, writing in Architectural Review.
• Two different movements were associated with Team 10: the New Brutalism of the British members (Alison and Peter Smithson) and the Structuralism of the Dutch members (Aldo van Eyck and Jaap Bakema).
• Upon returning to Christchurch, and forming the practice Warren and Mahoney, he was instrumental in developing the "Christchurch School" of architecture, an intersection between the truth-to-materials and structural expression that characterised Brutalism, and the low-key, Scandinavian and Japanese commitment to "straightforwardness".
• Isozaki's early projects were influenced by European experiences with a style mixed between "New Brutalism" and "Metabolist Architecture" (Oita Medical Hall, 1959–1960), according to Reyner Banham.
• A critical but sympathetic reappraisal of the internationalist oeuvre, inspired by Scandinavian Moderns such as Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz and Arne Jacobsen, and the late work of Le Corbusier himself, was reinterpreted by groups such as Team X, including structuralist architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Ralph Erskine, Denys Lasdun, Jørn Utzon and the movement known in the United Kingdom as New Brutalism.
• The bus station was featured in a two-part television series by Jonathan Meades, Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry (2014).
• The angular grey concrete that makes up nearly the whole visible exterior and some interior foyers looks unmistakably 1970s/1980s modernist new build; the architectural magazine Building Design described the hall's style as "complex late brutalism".
• The term began to spread widely after the British architectural critic Reyner Banham associated it with Brutalism in his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, which characterized a recent cluster of new architectural designs, particularly in Europe.
• One such reaction to the cold aesthetic of modernism and Brutalism is the school of metaphoric architecture, which includes such things as bio morphism and zoomorphic architecture, both using nature as the primary source of inspiration and design.
• He is featured in the two parts BBC Four documentary: "Bunkers, Brutalism, Bloodymindedness: Concrete Poetry", where he was interviewed by Jonathan Meades.
• Peter Raisbeck, ‘Contesting Brutalism in Australia: Robin Boyd and the dissemination of Brutalism’ in Contested Terrains: Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand, Freemantle, 2006.
• In addition to this, the band performed three "Lock-In" sets at Abbey Road Studios which were livestreamed on 29 and 30 August 2020, during which they played new material from the upcoming album, as well as songs from previous albums Joy and Brutalism and covers of songs by The Beatles, The Strokes and Ramones.
• Elain Harwoods book Space, Hope, and Brutalism features a photo of the Engineering Building's workshop hall on its cover.
• A large set was built in the LITES studios in Vilvoorde, including the headquarters of the Shield and also shot at existing buildings with architectural brutalism, characterized by their block-like concrete structures.

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