brutalism means brutal, violent behaviour; savagery. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From brutal + -ism.
noun
- Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.“1839, Earl of Clarendon, Speech to House of Lords, recorded in Mirror of Parliament, republished in 1840 January-June, The Eclectic Review, New Series, Volume 7, page 455,
Their punishments for crimes were of the most savage nature: and the absurdities of the Theodosian Code, together with the ancient customs of Germany, came to be all blended into a singular amalgamation of refinement and meannes”
- A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.“In similar spirit, Nigel Henderson, a member of the Independent Group's Brutalist core, exhibited black and white photographs of the East End at the 1953 ICA show Parallel of Life and Art which stressed the unsanitised reality of everyday life: Peter Smithson's defence of Brutalism through the categorical rhetoric of objectivity and truth, quoted above, echoes Anderson.”