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architecture that skips the compliments and just pours the concrete.
means a mid-20th-century style prizing raw, exposed materials and blunt geometric mass over decoration.
from from french beton brut, raw concrete, coined by le corbusier and popularized by architecture critic reyner banham in the 1950s.
not abouthas nothing to do with being brutal or cruel
postwar boomcheap concrete rebuilt bombed europe fast
comebackinstagram revived it as a design aesthetic obsession
famous grudgeprince charles once called one a carbuncle