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It's the appearance of function over form. That's why USSR used it as propaganda. Concrete is terrible surface material because it is impossible to maintain and
by hgsgm 4y ago
It's the appearance of function over form. That's why USSR used it as propaganda. Concrete is terrible surface material because it is impossible to maintain and repair.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoNo. The concretes function may not be optimal, but it is there to hold the building up, to form the walls, to provide conduits for people and services, etc. It is not a facade, it is not cladding, it is the functional building its-very-self. Brutalist buildings celebrate their exoskeletons.
- vidarh 4y agoThe USSR used it as a cheap means of trying to meet a massive housing shortage first and foremost. It abandoned the far more ornamental Stalinist style for brutalism as part of Khrushchev's push for that. Note the far more ostentatious buildings under Stalin and Stalin's rejection of Le Corbusiers extremely radical proposals for redevelopment of Moscow in favour of far more traditional designs. To the extent it was later used as propaganda, that was a follow on effect once stagnation forced doubling down on construction that had initially been intended as relatively short term cheap housing.
- tptacek 4y agoYou get that you're criticizing a house you haven't seen, right?
- password11 4y agoWe've all seen enough post-Soviet cities to make an educated guess.
- arpa 4y agolol i don't think so.