There was an article here a day or two ago highlighting Brutalist churches that got a modicum of attention. Having experienced a bit of Brutalist architecture,

There was an article here a day or two ago highlighting Brutalist churches that got a modicum of attention. Having experienced a bit of Brutalist architecture, I mostly thought of it as ugly (at least the exteriors; the experience of occupying it is a bit more nuanced), but I found the pictures of these churches to be rather profound; they used the style to cast a sense of awe that I found really compelling (and I say this as someone who tried for a long time to believe in religion but always failed). And looking that the dates, they were all mid-century construction and I realized that nothing like them is being built today (at least in my awareness). I don't mean that particular style, but nothing with any style at all; it's all homogenized, optimized, and built-to-cost. It's another part of the lesson of my lifetime that we live in an economy, not a country.