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brutalist

adjective

  1. relating to or in the style of brutalism
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noun

  1. a proponent or practitioner of brutalism
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From brutal + -ist.

  1. Pertaining to Brutalism, a style of modernist architecture characterized by the use of board-marked concrete

    [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.

noun

Etymology: From brutal + -ist.

  1. Someone that follows brutalism.