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You are mixing a few things here, flat roofs have nothing to do with brutalism in particular or Le Corbusier - they existed long before both. Maybe you meant mo

• Marazan 5y ago
  I find it hard to take seriously someone who is "suprised" by the existence of flat roofs in traditional North African/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern architecture.
  • spanktheuser 5y ago
    Why? Do you feel humans should be born with a natural instinct for Mediterranean architecture, much as they are for the supremacy of iterative software development?
    • Marazan 5y ago
      I would expect a person who runs an architecture YouTube channel to be vaguely familiar with major styles of architecture, yes.
    • atoav 5y ago
      No, but if you criticize an architectural feature, maybe researching where it came from and what the reasoning behind it is can be expected.
• spanktheuser 5y ago
  I do also wonder what people consider modern. As I sit in my flat-roofed 1880’s Chicago home. Surrounding block after block of flat-roofed residential buildings housing millions of people, largely constructed between 1872 and 1930.