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It could be the case that in 30 years, we look back at the aesthetics of our current times with fondness and nostalgia.
by jmartrican 4y ago
It could be the case that in 30 years, we look back at the aesthetics of our current times with fondness and nostalgia.
- dbspin 4y agoLikely, but probably more for the full bellies and access to medical care than the aesthetics, which truly have become stultifying.
- DocTomoe 4y agoI know I am in the minority here, but I actually like brutalist architecture between 1965 and 1985. Not the cookie-cutter ghettos, I mean artful architecture, like Habitat 67 or the Robarts Library, or the Wellcome headquarters.
- jmartrican 4y agoI like it too. I especially like it for big government agencies, like FBI and post-office. Gives the impression of "we are not here to f*k around".
- itsyaboi 4y agoI too enjoy the deep paternalistic emotions evoked by government buildings.
- Ygg2 4y agoI too like brutalist architecture for its sincerity. Big Cities are inherently ugly. Brutalist architecture just don't pretend they are pretty.
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- zip1234 4y agoBig cities are not inherently ugly. What makes a big city ugly to you?
- muro 4y agoBig cities can be ugly, but don't have to be. Less car centric, more green cities can be very pretty. Any brutalist architecture in those is terrible, making the place look worse on purpose.
- zip1234 4y agoThere is a definite survivorship bias in buildings. The 'good ones' tend to survive and the horrendous ones torn down. The major problem with brutalist is that it often sacrificed comfort of those using the building. Who wants a building near an outside wall but having no windows?