Over on Architizer, there's a terrific history of Brutalist architecture, which rose to prominence in the early 1950s after Le Corbusier completed his Unité d’Habitation in France with unfinished concrete instead of steel. The movement lasted two decades and includes the angular, geometric works of Alison and Peter Smithson, Ern? Goldfinger, Paul Rudolph, and more. [Architizer; previously]
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