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One of the reasons brutalism is ugly, is that the movement more or less explicitly rejects aesthetics -- or rather, given the movement's alignment with socialis
by mseebach 11y ago
One of the reasons brutalism is ugly, is that the movement more or less explicitly rejects aesthetics -- or rather, given the movement's alignment with socialism, it rejects bourgeois notions of aesthetics.
- restalis 11y agoYes, it was a part of the social leveling plan. It was a hard challenge from the architects' part in finding ways to infiltrate at least some sorts of aesthetics into the politically highly sought plainness and dullness.