Brutalism

New Brutalism.
Term coined by Peter Smithson in 1953 with reference to the design by Smithson and Alison Smithson for a school (completed 1954) at Hunstanton, Norfolk. It was intended as a counter to such terms as New Empiricism.

[edit] Brutalism and monumentality
The National Assembly Building of Bangladesh by Louis Kahn; compare its "weightiness" with works above.
Main article: Brutalist architecture ...

Unité dHabitation, Marseille (Le Corbusier 1952) Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. ...

Thus Late Modernism gave way to Brutalism, Corporate Modernism and High Tech architecture, culminating in structures like the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, ...

See also: School, Movement, Painting, Modernism, Expression