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Brutalism actually comes from the French word for concrete, "beton brut"; not English "brutality". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism https://en.wiktiona
by unavoidable 2y ago
Brutalism actually comes from the French word for concrete, "beton brut"; not English "brutality".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brutalism
- retrac 2y agoUnfinished 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.
- omneity 2y agoBrut is raw. Brute or brutal is related to violence.
- bongobingo1 2y agoPerhaps 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 https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html
- sph 2y agoSee also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut