Brutalism, a revival: From cool to crude and back again
And in the fifth decade of Modernism Le Corbusier said "Let there be concrete": and there was Brutalism.
Well, perhaps not quite. However the Swiss-French polymath certainly kick-started what became the most divisive school of architecture in the twentieth century. His buildings from the late 1940s onwards paved the way for a new brand of Modernism, employing "beton brut", raw, unfinished concrete set in bold, geometric forms.