Here I am in Birmingham, England. A city determined to blow up our wonderful brutalist buildings and replace it with ornamented crap. Brutalism means letting a

Here I am in Birmingham, England. A city determined to blow up our wonderful brutalist buildings and replace it with ornamented crap. Brutalism means letting a functional concrete building look concrete and functional -- revealing its function and materials in the design. A brutalist web site should LOOK like a web site, and build its appearance around its function, not some fancy science-fi fantasy. Here's some text. Here's an image. Here's a heading. Here's a link. They all do different things, they are all in different places. By that reckoning a few of the examples are brutalist. Hacker News, craigslist, Daniel Eatock. They are not minimalist, because they do not hide their functional complexity. They reveal the functional complexity in their design. These are popular, powerful, ugly sites and I'd love to see more of them.