Hot take but Brutalism is genuinely beautiful and breathtaking and it doesnt require the vague social context of "its mean to be ugly" to be appreciated, its grand and there is so much you can do within the restriction and combination of simple materials and geometry assembled in unique ways without a bunch of religious/aristocratic imagery or just turning it into a glass blob.
i have warm feelings for it from my grandfather taking me into various brutalist buildings when i was young. they were often cool govt. run places like museums and libraries and other things (he was a new dealer and strongly believed in govt. cultural services). so i associate it with childhood wonder more then "stark ugly concrete etc".
I feel like people are just stuck in the meme of "No likey concrete so ugly" to actually appreciate raw geometry without a ton of embellishments stuck onto it.
Hot take but Brutalism is genuinely beautiful and breathtaking and it doesnt require the vague social context of "its mean to be ugly" to be appreciated, its grand and there is so much you can do within the restriction and combination of simple materials and geometry assembled in unique ways without a bunch of religious/aristocratic imagery or just turning it into a glass blob.
i have warm feelings for it from my grandfather taking me into various brutalist buildings when i was young. they were often cool govt. run places like museums and libraries and other things (he was a new dealer and strongly believed in govt. cultural services). so i associate it with childhood wonder more then "stark ugly concrete etc".
I feel like people are just stuck in the meme of "No likey concrete so ugly" to actually appreciate raw geometry without a ton of embellishments stuck onto it.
Go off. It's amazing and I get the same sense of wonder. Enough so that I use it as Dwarven architecture in my dungeons and dragons lol