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Brutalism

Concrete, honesty and a reputation still being relitigated.

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Brutalist architecture

Brutalism isn’t ugly — it’s unbendingly honest about what a building is made of and why it stands there.

Concrete was his civic tool—not his style, not his signature, not his philosophy.

Chamberlin, Powell & Bon · 1982

Tange didn’t rebuild Hiroshima—he reoriented it, using columns, concrete, and an axis as instruments of moral geometry.