Versions of brutalism: A comparison of Marcel Breuer’s St. John’s Abbey and Van Den Broek & Bakema’s Auditorium

During the post-war period in the 1950s, brutalist architecture originated in Great-Britain as a reaction to previous architectural movements. It derived from an architectural style of building with exposed concrete called ‘béton brut’. It later became more popular when a new generation of modernist architects started using this exposed concrete...