Essay1955
The New Brutalism
Reyner Banham
Names Brutalism as an ethic of showing a building's structure and materials as found rather than a decorative style, coining the term for the tendency the essay describes.
Architecture & Built Environment · Modern & Contemporary Architecture
Brutalism
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Architecture, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
Reading on Brutalism
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Book1966
The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?
Reyner Banham
Expands his own earlier essay into a full argument that Brutalism was an ethical commitment to showing a building's structure and materials as found, not merely a rough visual style, and traces how the movement drifted from one into the other.