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This isn& #39;t a joke, Brutalism is hands down my favorite architectural style.
Look at this gorgeous sonofabitch.
(Long Lines Building, NYC)
Look at this gorgeous sonofabitch.
(Long Lines Building, NYC)
Boston City Hall.
Look at you.
Look at you.
You blow all of those neo-classical domed DC rip-offs out of the water, you wonderful motherfucker.
Look at you.
Look at you.
You blow all of those neo-classical domed DC rip-offs out of the water, you wonderful motherfucker.
I EXPECT A FORERUNNER DRONE TO COME OUT OF THIS THING ANY MOMENT AND GIVE ME MY QUEST.
(Buffalo City Courthouse, @mtkerr89& #39;s old stomping grounds)
(Buffalo City Courthouse, @mtkerr89& #39;s old stomping grounds)
It& #39;s /honest/. It lacks pretension. It can be gorgeous, or soaring, or monolithic, or imposing, or welcoming, but there& #39;s no facade whatsoever.
Like limiting your poetry with meter, it makes you create within rules.
You decorate with texture and shape.
(Yale& #39;s Rudolph Hall)
Like limiting your poetry with meter, it makes you create within rules.
You decorate with texture and shape.
(Yale& #39;s Rudolph Hall)
It gets tarred by association w/ soviet gov& #39;t buildings (b/c it also has the advantage of being cheap and easy to build in post-war Europe), but it doesn& #39;t have to be grim or sterile.
Just... plant some fucking plants. Make it a space worth living in.
(Barbican Center, London)
Just... plant some fucking plants. Make it a space worth living in.
(Barbican Center, London)
It soars.
(Eastern and Western city gates, Belgrade)
(Eastern and Western city gates, Belgrade)
"Windowless." "Grim." "Dark." "Boring."
The Geisel Library at UCSD cordially invites you to go fuck yourself.
The Geisel Library at UCSD cordially invites you to go fuck yourself.
It& #39;s the ultimate expression of the architectural maxim that form should follow function.
It& #39;s geometry, made comfortable, without making it any less grand.
(The Southbank Center and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)
It& #39;s geometry, made comfortable, without making it any less grand.
(The Southbank Center and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)
It reaches for the divine. It makes spaces that can awe you into reverence.
It has Magnitude, in a way that so many modern styles have abandoned.
(Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
It has Magnitude, in a way that so many modern styles have abandoned.
(Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
The Ginásio do Clube Atlético Paulistano, in Sao Paulo again.
The future they imagined.
The world they hoped we were building.
The future they imagined.
The world they hoped we were building.
Short version: Brutalism is good, actually, y& #39;all motherfuckers are just scared to take risks.
But please, tell me how your developer modernism block of identical apartment buildings that somehow seem equally out of place in EVERY CITY,
Are so much better than this:
But please, tell me how your developer modernism block of identical apartment buildings that somehow seem equally out of place in EVERY CITY,
Are so much better than this:
"It& #39;s so modern!"
This is garbage. This. This right here. It belongs in the garbage. Just take it, and put it in the garbage, and then take out the garbage.
This is garbage. This. This right here. It belongs in the garbage. Just take it, and put it in the garbage, and then take out the garbage.
It is the architectural equivalent of The Olive Garden.
YOU COULD LIVE IN THIS LEGO WONDERLAND BUT NO YOU WANT USELESS FRILLS ON THE SAME FUCKING BUILDING IN EVERY CITY IN THE US.
(Habitat 67, Montreal)
(Habitat 67, Montreal)
LOOK WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD, YOU BORING MOTHERFUCKERS.
