A poetic vision of Paris’ crumbling suburban high rises

Re:A poetic vision of Paris’ crumbling suburban high rises by matthewmacleod on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:44AM (#10319252)

The reason the term is 'brutalism' is because it's derived from the French béton brut – i.e. raw concrete. I'm not a French speaker, but I understand that the implications in that language aren't quite the same as in English.

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Re:A poetic vision of Paris’ crumbling suburban high rises by jfoks on Saturday October 03, 2015 @05:04PM (#10325368)

Wikipedia disagrees with that: "The term "brutalism" was originally coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth in Uppsala, designed in 1949 by his contemporaries Bengt Edman and Lennart Holm.[citation needed] He originally used the Swedish-language term nybrutalism (new brutalism), which was picked up by a group of visiting English architects, including Michael Ventris. In England, the term was further adopted by architects Alison and Peter Smithson.[3][4] The term gained wide currency when the British architectural historian Reyner Banham used it in the title of his 1966 book, The New Brutalism: Ethic or Aesthetic?, to characterise a somewhat recently established cluster of architectural approaches, particularly in Europe.[4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#History

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