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Brutalist

Architecture style

Brutalist architecture flourished from the early 1950s to the 1970s. British architect Peter Smithson and the Robin Hood Gardens in London count as typical examples of brutalist architecture style. The term originates from the French word for "raw," used by Swiss designer Le Corbusier to describe raw concrete as his choice material.

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