Monument, Villa-Lobos Park, Sao Paolo, Brazil
It has featured as dystopian urban background in many science fiction movies and became typical mark of 1970s ugliness for many. Maybe my passion for brutalist style (or movement if you like) of architecture comes from growing up in concrete housing blocks in the suburbs builded by communist’s social engineers. Actually, despite surrounding nature, I hated that place as a kid. But if you fall in love with this style, you fall hard. Now For me brutalist buildings have certain coziness.
Brutalism is from the French béton brut, or “raw concrete”, a phrase used by Le Corbusier to describe the poured board-marked concrete with which he constructed many of his post-World War II buildings (wiki).
And couple of cool ones. Keep the style!
Ernő Goldfinger, Trellick Tower, 1972
Nuffield Transplantation Surgery Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1964 (Peter Womersley)
Boston City Hall
Hotel intercontinental
Royal Theatre
Prentice Women’s Hospital, Chicago