> > Brutalism has become popular with many people of my age. > Has it really? Have you lived in any of the places you mentioned and consider nice? I can't aff

> > Brutalism has become popular with many people of my age. > Has it really? Have you lived in any of the places you mentioned and consider nice? I can't afford to. I do know people who live in the Barbican estate, at least, and who love it. But it's a good question and I think quite right. My remark does sort of exhibit the same mistake that Brutalism was supposed to avoid - using public appreciation of aesthetic quality as a proxy for lived quality. And I also see that I'm praising the expensive, ambitious, now-unaffordable projects, not the ones that were "problematic" and then blown up, like Red Roads (in Glasgow) or Heygate (in London).