I like the geometry and scale, to me theres something really breathtaking about stripping away all the fancy embellishments of past architecture and avoiding the glass blob shit of most contemporary architecture I see.
I also like the combination of simple basic materials in concrete and glass used in complex ways within the restrictions of fairly clean geometry.
Also somewhat like HappyBadger said I feel theres an actual identity and culture to be found in brutalist architecture, much of past architecture is purely praising the monarchy/aristocracy or the church, or their equivalents, and modern commercial architecture feels fairly soulless since its just a bunch of glass in some blobby shape that doesnt offend or stick out. Brutalism makes me actually feel something and it doesnt do it through just pumping me full of cultural nostalgia for awful systems of power that are glorified as "our history"
I like the geometry and scale, to me theres something really breathtaking about stripping away all the fancy embellishments of past architecture and avoiding the glass blob shit of most contemporary architecture I see. I also like the combination of simple basic materials in concrete and glass used in complex ways within the restrictions of fairly clean geometry.
Also somewhat like HappyBadger said I feel theres an actual identity and culture to be found in brutalist architecture, much of past architecture is purely praising the monarchy/aristocracy or the church, or their equivalents, and modern commercial architecture feels fairly soulless since its just a bunch of glass in some blobby shape that doesnt offend or stick out. Brutalism makes me actually feel something and it doesnt do it through just pumping me full of cultural nostalgia for awful systems of power that are glorified as "our history"