Definition of "Brutalism"

Brutalism

noun
uncountable
1. (architecture) A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.
  Quotations
  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.
  2000, Katherine Shonfield, Walls Have Feelings: architecture, film and the city‎, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 20
  Nonetheless, despite its radical appearance, Brutalism could claim, if not legitimacy, at least ancestry in pre-World War II modernism.
  2004, B. M. Boyle, Brutalism, R. Stephen Sennott (editor), Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Volume 1: A-F, Taylor & Francis (Fitzroy Dearborn), page 181
  The trend towards Brutalism - an austere style that had its origins in the Bauhaus and is characterized by its emphasis on the building materials (especially bare concrete) and unconcealed service pipes - did little to improve the situation.
  2005, Rodney Bolt, Bavaria, Cadogan Guides, page 26