Brutalism is a word which describes raw architecture, reaching its renaissance from 1950s to the mid 1970s. Strong lines illustrate the concrete material and its hardness. Either you love it or hate it, there is no middle way. 

Take a look at the beauty and the atrocity of brutalism around the world. Brutalism is meant to hit you hard!

Cité radieuse de Marseille, France - Le Corbusier, 1947-1952

Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires, Argetina - Clorindo Testa, 1966

Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, Salvaleón de Higüey, República Dominicana - A. Dunoyer de Segonzac,Pierre Dupre, 1971

Chapel of Kerselare, Kerselare, Belgium - Juliaan Lampens and Rutger Langaskens, 1964

Boston City Hall, Boston, USA - Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles, 1969

Building of Slovak radio, Bratislava, Slovakia - Štefan Svetko, Štefan ?urkovi?, Barnabýš Kissling - 1983

Bristol hotel Car park, Bristol, Great Britan

Chandigarh Secretariat Building, Chandigarh, India - Le Corbusier, 1953

St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA - Marcel Breuer, 1961

Les Choux de Créteil, Paris, France - Gérard Grandval 1972-1975

The Aula of Delft University in The Netherlands, Delft, Netherlands - Van den Broek en Bakema, 1966

Genex Tower, Belgrade, Serbia - Mihajlo Mitrovi?, 1977

Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada - Moshe Safdie, 1967

50 Queen Anne's Gate (the former Home Office building), London, Great-Britan - Basil Spence, 1976