Why and how did brutalist architecture become popular in America? It killed off the fledgling googie and MCM movements and replaced them with god-awful dreary gray boxes.
This function-over-form shit is the direct ancestor of the modern soulless strip mall and office block styling that plagues the country. We could've had Jetsons but we got dead featureless rectangles instead.
Brutalism is just using the materials available and reducing cost. 100% of modern art is just running out of marble and real materials and using whatever is cheaper to design on a computer.
You can make attractive and interesting architecture with just the same concrete and steel that brutalism makes use of. Fancy marble ornamentation isn't a necessity for a nice looking building
That doesn't look better than OP's pic. It looks like brunch is served there. Brutalism is just the modernist conclusion of Gothicism. The Grace to be found in massiveness and simplicity. The good promises in a well-oiled monolithic utilitarian organisation.
Midwit take and I hate
Boxes glued together.
Lies
Collectivist ideology with architects
Notice how most brutalist buildings are civic buildings. Utilitarian and the idea of ordered windows forming a single whole
It's not "just rectangles", it's geometry and an emphasis on sobriety. It looks absolute and ancient. I don't see a difference between this and the Greek Parthenon and the right's obsession with unpainted marble. Paint and embellishments usually come in the way of things.
Marble and accents look better then basic shapes and concrete
The Parthenon was ornamented you moron. You're blind if you think this is in any way similar to a hulking, featureless modern office block
>It looks like brunch is served there
And the OP pic looks like prisoners are kept there. A grid of repeating windows on a massive rectangular building isn't architecture anymore than a sheet of graph paper is art.
>box
cringe
>box held up with sticks
VGH
>It looks absolute and ancient. I don't see a difference between this and the Greek Parthenon
so you don't see a difference between an ugly brutalist build and a 2000 year old ruin that looks..ruinous?
well I agree
>It's not "just rectangles", it's geometry and an emphasis on sobriety. It looks absolute and ancient.
Nazi architects explicitly stated that they designed structures in such a way that they'd result in impressive ruins for future civilizations.
In hindsight, didn't work out that way, but it was their intention.
>YOU MUST BUILD YOUR BUILDINGS OUT OF EXPENSIVE AND AESTHETIC MATERIALS
>YOU MUST MAKE RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX BUILDINGS
>WHY?.....BECAUSE.....YOU MUST
Youre a fricking moron if you dont believe your city's architecture influences you psychologically.
> European and asian cities literally carpet bombed from the air in WW2
> Waaahhhh brutalism so horrible. We shouldn´t have solid buildings
It´s all so tiresome
Brutalism isn't going to protect you from fricking air raids you imbecile, they're no more durable than any other concrete and steel construction.
Bullshit. Brutalist buildings are made to last 500 years. Eat a big dick.
If it couldn't survive a passenger jet there's no way in hell it'd survive a 2000lb bomb
>planes brought down the WTC buildings
lol. lmao even
500 years of SHIT
Brutalism is not form over function. That's the international corporate style.
1930s, lots of architects and engineers are trained up to build bunkers and pillboxes all over europe in preparation for WW2. The war ends and all those architects and engineers use their skills to make civilian building that surprisingly look like fortifications.
all postwar buildings are constructed of concrete and steel, brutalist buildings just don't try to hide it
>brutalism killed off googie
are you fricking moronic? where are all the brutalist mcdonalds
Look around you
These artificial cliffs look best with some trees around them. The contrast with green makes even commieblocks look neat.
This frickhuge hotel failed it's auction starting at 10 million USD, by the way.
i think it's pretty neat tbh. it's grey and masculine like gigachad.