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I think he was being sarcastic, since the last pic seems clearly "brutalist"? (is that the right term?)

• lowmagnet 11y ago
  That last one does appear more along the lines of brutalist, with its unapologetic blank wall on the right, covered in marks from the molds.
• elcapitan 11y ago
  "Brutalist" as a tendency definitely, as much of modernism is - but actual Brutalism is a style that is almost comically using modern materials, like this church in Cologne http://www.kirschfoto.de/galerie/bilderkiste/pics_high/koeln_2014_01.jpg http://www.kirschfoto.de/galerie/bilderkiste/pics_high/koeln... or this university building in Berlin: http://40.media.tumblr.com/ed3608dcb4860ad6dc8df05c4bd807ca/tumblr_nzgmhcXPCA1unjxq9o1_1280.jpg http://40.media.tumblr.com/ed3608dcb4860ad6dc8df05c4bd807ca/...
  • swah 11y ago
    Wow, the last one looks reminds me of many public buildings in my city: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3815/11038238423_8788196347_b.jpg https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3815/11038238423_8788196347_b... I'm not sure I'm looking at the right details when "classifying" it, though. This one was built in 1972.
• eternalban 11y ago
  Not being sarcastic. That last pic is 'Casa Del Fascio'. (Italians are the Japanese of the Europe, imo, in terms of design: even on a bad hair day they can't help but make beautiful stuff.) Back in the day in RPI, we affectionately called this complex [1] the "nazi plaza". This is brutalism. For a more masterly brutalist work, see the Carpenter Center by Corbusier [2]. [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/EmpirePlaza17.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/EmpirePl... [2]: http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/assets/aa_image/700/4/a/8/1/4a8146eae677c2820858803bbc959dd5ed2042f1.jpg http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/assets/aa_image/700/4/a...
  • swah 11y ago
    Thanks for clearing up. What does RPI mean? I totally bought that as a east german complex :)
    • eternalban 11y ago
      http://rpi.edu/ http://rpi.edu/