Brutalist

See also: brutalist

English

Etymology

brutal + -ist

Adjective

Brutalist (comparative more Brutalist, superlative most Brutalist)

  1. (architecture) Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete
    • 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
      [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.

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Noun

Brutalist (plural Brutalists)

  1. An architect who used this style

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