[cjbgkagh]

Brutalism - béton brut ("raw concrete") and art brut ("raw art") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

Though the common modern understanding of it does lend itself to 'brute'. I think one of the real issues was the post WWII era of 1950s to 1980s was a time of focus on low cost construction with an overconfidence in the forgiving nature of concrete combined with a fair amount of corruption in the factory supplied components - at least in the UK which I'm more familiar with.

It can be done well, and I point to the Barbican in London as an example. With better construction techniques it can last a lot longer with less maintenance cost.

[trhway]

>Though the common modern understanding of it does lend itself to 'brute'.

English brute and French brut (raw) both seem to come from the Latin brutus.

[jcranmer]

> It can be done well, and I point to the Barbican in London as an example.

The brutalist-does-not-mean-ugly architecture I usually point to is the Washington Metro.

[Cupertino95014]

> I point to the Barbican in London

https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/architecture/our-build...

To me, this looks more like an East Berlin apartment building for the Communist Party elites. Not as ugly as the workers' buildings, but that's not saying much.