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Definition of "brutalist" []

  • Someone that follows brutalism. (noun)

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Use "brutalist" in a sentence
  • "While the term brutalist is derived from béton brut - French for raw concrete - the interesting thing about 222 Jarvis is that it uses a combination of materials."
  • "It is called Brutalist Architecture (the term brutalist originates from the French béton brut or "raw concrete," but the name does fit the style to comment, but it's easier if you do so."
  • "In his previous book, Militant Modernism, an acclaimed 2009 essay collection, he wrote with fierceness and longing about the nearly lost worlds of 20s Soviet avant-garde architecture and the "brutalist" British buildings of the 50s and 60s that carried forward some of the ideas of these communist pioneers."