Brutalism started in the 1950s in the U.K. One of its pioneers was Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect who did a lot of work in raw concrete after World War II, including housing, religious ...

One of its pioneers was Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, who was commissioned ... that function like self-contained ...

We explore all that, below. Brutalism is about embracing organic principles. "Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect whose ...

The Hoover Building “reimagined” by a Gensler design team (2012), from the Capital Brutalism exhibit (Photo: Courtesy of Gensler) Neither of these exhibits provides an adequate idea of the impact Le ...

“Brutalism” comes from the French word for ... most sources attribute its coinage to the French architect Le Corbusier (full name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), who used it to describe one ...

Brutalism emerged from the modernist movement ... Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier; Kentucky-born Paul Rudolph; Austrian Marcel Breuer; Japanese architect Kenzo Tange; Hungarian Erno Goldfinger ...

She says, one of the pioneers of brutalism, Le Corbusier, coined the term beton brut, which roughly translates to raw concrete. PERSON: What he meant was this idea of pared back architecture that ...

Brutalism in Europe is often associated with housing projects, such as Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, ...