Brutalist architecture
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The Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario is typical of Brutalist architecture. The rounded corner stair towers provide end balance for five horizontal bands of béton brut concrete.
During the 1950s, Paulo Mendes da Rocha joined an avant-garde movement in São Paulo, Brazil. His work, known as Paulist brutalist architecture, used simple shapes and materials.
nearly always used concrete exposed at it roughest and handled with overemphais on big chunky member which collide ruthlessly. The old Oregon Historical Society Building on the park blocks in Portland, Oregon is an example of Brutalist architecture.
 See also: House, Architecture, Concrete, Queen anne, Brick
  
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