Brutalism actually comes from the French word for concrete, "beton brut"; not English "brutality".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism

Unfinished concrete, specifically. I would translate "brut" as "bare" or "unrefined" here. English brutality is related to French brut, but in French it means more like crude, unrefined, raw, blunt, with no particular sense of animalistic or violent.

Brut is raw. Brute or brutal is related to violence.

Perhaps we should be right-click->view-source'ing for the true brutalist experience.

e: ah, in this very thread https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut

It's called brutalism because brute is the French word for concrete. To many being made out of concrete would be a defining feature of brutalism, to others it's the exposed building materials without façade.

I have been operating with the same working definition for a long time. I think the author is misusing the term.

Might want to look it up before getting set on your definition. Sibling comment has it (mostly) right: it’s literally “raw concrete”.

Learning moment. Thanks for the clarification.