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No, that's specifically a style of architecture featuring (inter alia) raw concrete external finishes, and not a catchall for things you find ugly.
by dmurray 7y ago
No, that's specifically a style of architecture featuring (inter alia) raw concrete external finishes, and not a catchall for things you find ugly.
- tomjakubowski 7y agoYou're being harsh. There's more to brutalism than the material: for instance, the style tends to visibly expose functional elements like elevator and ventilation shafts to the building's exterior.
- roywiggins 7y agoThe idea of brutalism is at least partly to avoid artifice and emphasize materials and function over ornament. Of course, applying it to anything that's not actually architecture is analogizing.