> utilitarian [brutalist] architecture that has great appeal to me. I think in part because it is rare now. I find them far more pleasing to the eye than the gi

> utilitarian [brutalist] architecture that has great appeal to me. I think in part because it is rare now. I find them far more pleasing to the eye than the giant glass clad high rises that was the fashion for a long time. Reminds me of https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-16 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-16. "Giant glass clad high rises" are not a fashion -- they're popular because most people in the U.S. and Europe like the way they look. In some sense these pretty glass buildings are a symbol of American ideology. Free markets tipped the balance from the art elite, who wanted people to live in brutalist slaughterhouses, toward the common people, who like their optimistic, futurist buildings and are willing to pay for them.