The meaning of Brutalism

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Cruelty and savageness.

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Exchanging one kind of social and economic brutalism for another is not what they had in mind

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A stark style of functionalist architecture, especially of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by the use of steel and concrete in massive blocks.

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The long, low, concrete-faced buildings were remarkable solely for their brutalism

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A building style in which buildings are large and heavy-looking, and often made from concrete

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Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s brutalism was the house style of uk universities and governmen…