British architecture critic Reyner Banham ... as the style traveled beyond Western Europe. In the former Yugoslavia, for example, Brutalist architects created residential blocks and hotels ...

The term is believed to come from "beton brut", French for raw concrete. Surprisingly, almost no Brutalist architecture appears in The Brutalist – until we glimpse Toth's completed masterpiece ...

It took special exception to the “massive and block-like appearance” of late 20th century brutalist architecture. In particular, it cited two “unpopular” examples in Washington, DC: the Department of ...