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This makes a lot of sense. Like with brutalism the first designers created beautiful and useful art. But as the movement expanded, limited time and budget, bad
by hourago 4y ago
This makes a lot of sense. Like with brutalism the first designers created beautiful and useful art. But as the movement expanded, limited time and budget, bad copies, and misunderstanding of the movement created authentic monstrosities.
In some cases removing the bar made sense. Now it's just fancy copy/paste where it does not apply and the bar would have been useful.
- ksaj 4y agoThe library for University of Toronto is a pretty awesome example of brutalism done right. It looks different from every side, and it is massive. But like you've alluded to, for every good example of brutalism, there are terrible ones.