Brutalism
Mass concrete left as struck, monumental massing, the construction method visible as the finish.
How it connects
Brutalism draws on Modernism.
Brutalism evokes Mid-Century.
In other taxonomies
- BrutalistGetty AAT, 300112048nearly the same
- brutalist architectureWikidata, Q994776nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Brutalism
22 terms, Minimalism to Constructivism
Record
- Relations
- Evokes Mid-CenturyInfluenced by Modernism
- Provenance
- vendoredSTYLES in an architecture-projects platform (src-01), read 21 Aug 2026
- Kind
- MovementA declared movement with an art-historical record behind it. A disagreement about its edges is a disagreement about that record, and is settled by meaning it.
For machines
Permanent address
/id/style/brutalismKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptStyleincoming
- has-conceptStyleincoming
- evoked-byMid-Centuryincoming
- belongs-to-axisStyleoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetStyleoutgoing
- evokesMid-Centuryoutgoing
- influenced-byModernismoutgoing
- influencesModernismincoming
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300112048 | Brutalist | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q994776 | brutalist architecture | nearly the same |