— brutalist , n. , adj.
/brooht"l iz'euhm/ , n.
(in modern architecture) the aesthetic use of basic building processes with no apparent concern for visual amenity.
[ 1795-1805, for literal sense; BRUTAL + -ISM; in reference to architecture first used by British architects Alison Smithson (b. 1928) and Peter Smithson (b. 1923) in 1953 ]