new brutalism

British  

noun

1. another name for brutalism

---

Example Sentences

In “The New Brutalism,” his December 1955 essay for the British magazine the Architectural Review, Banham credits Swedish architect Hans Asplund with coinage of the term New Brutalism.

From Los Angeles Times

The indeterminacy that resulted allowed Ashbery’s poetry to capture the interactions of the many dictions that surround us with a new fullness and complexity; a poem such as Daffy Duck in Hollywood mixes up references to Disney cartoons, Paradise Lost, newspaper comic strips, the symbolist drama of Maeterlinck, new brutalism and Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula, in a dizzying, exhilarating melange.

From The Guardian

An example of the New Brutalism style of the 1960s, Boston City Hall is a gray concrete structure influenced by Le Corbusier’s monastery at La Tourette, France — both of them attempts to render modern architecture as monumental as classical architecture.

From New York Times

Ltd., in a high-speech version of the idiom that used to be called New Brutalism 20 years ago�aggressive concrete planes and deep slots of shadow, directly descended from late Le Corbusier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today architects are developing uneasy qualms as the glass-curtain wall begins to turn whole streets into reflecting canyons and reinforced concrete seems headed toward a kind of new brutalism.

From Time Magazine Archive