Some brutalist buildings do instil the same sense of cold, surreal, and inhuman qualities Kafka does with his writing. Insurmountable oppression. Also, Kafkas

Some brutalist buildings do instil the same sense of cold, surreal, and inhuman qualities Kafka does with his writing. Insurmountable oppression. Also, Kafkas protagonists are often stripped of any sense of intimacy. Laid bare, much like the naked concrete and straight lines seen in brutalist architecture. So I do see where OP could be coming from. Then again, LA is not able to drown me in dread the same way a dreary Soviet administration building does.