I am a brutalist. However, allow me to embrace my Art Deco and Art Nouveau comrades with the following statement I think we can all agree on:
"The faux Greco-Roman American architecture style that seemingly every new building in America adopts - from your local bank to the federal courthouses - is an absolute abomination and they must all be destroyed in a socialist future, regardless of their utility. Some things are just so ugly, their utility is irrelevant".
Brutalism was the house style for federal buildings for a long time because it was considered as "monumental" as neoclassical architecture. I think a lot of the bad rap brutalism gets comes from people associating it with imposing and alienating government buildings.
maybe that's part of why brutalism appeals to me, is that I have more positive associations with it
from a young age, most of my exposure to brutalism was from the buildings on the local college campuses where my dad has worked for years and where I later attended
I am a brutalist. However, allow me to embrace my Art Deco and Art Nouveau comrades with the following statement I think we can all agree on:
"The faux Greco-Roman American architecture style that seemingly every new building in America adopts - from your local bank to the federal courthouses - is an absolute abomination and they must all be destroyed in a socialist future, regardless of their utility. Some things are just so ugly, their utility is irrelevant".
American Classical architecture is more proof America has no culture
Brutalism was the house style for federal buildings for a long time because it was considered as "monumental" as neoclassical architecture. I think a lot of the bad rap brutalism gets comes from people associating it with imposing and alienating government buildings.
maybe that's part of why brutalism appeals to me, is that I have more positive associations with it
from a young age, most of my exposure to brutalism was from the buildings on the local college campuses where my dad has worked for years and where I later attended
so to me brutalism feels nostalgic and cozy
There is a cool video about it by StupidCity
True leftist unity.
What about "imperial style" from the Stalin era?
Wtf proof the ussr was imperialist??
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