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Saying "brutalism" is bad is being totally ignorant of the work of architects like Le Corbusier. https://goo.gl/T5o4Gk https://goo.gl/T5o4Gk On the other hand

• Animats 11y ago
  This has little to do with architectural brutalism, which was a 1960-70s thing. Characteristics include concrete cast with rough forms, producing a rough surface, a lack of decoration, and fortress-like architecture. Examples include the Boston City Hall[1] and other monumental projects [2], plus a huge number of Soviet and Third World housing blocks built that way because it's cheap. Also most of the world's parking structures. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall [2] http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonathan-meades-brutalism-a-z http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/jonathan...
• enjo 11y ago
  I mean, I think Le Corbusier's work is sort of awful :) I'm not an architect, just a casual fan of architecture. For my personal taste the whole brutalist movement was a long series of boring, intimidating, and repressive buildings that scar the primarily urban environments they were built in even to this day. Especially University Campuses where the style was so popular for so long (Christopher Alexander is a hero of mine). Interestingly, OP's list of sites are largely ones I dislike as well.