The construction industry was also able to accept foreign or overseas Chinese architects. Brutalism was strongly influenced by the concrete sculpture forms of the later period of the French modern architect Le Courbusier. On the exterior, most embellishment was eliminated, in order to deliberately express the bluntness of concrete and the totality of the form or shape.
粗獷風格便是受法國近代建築大師柯比意晚期混凝土雕塑造型的影響，外型上去除大部分的裝飾，刻意表現混凝土的質感和幾何形體的組合。