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TIL my aesthetic is brutalism
If you're basing that off the Pic, that is not brutalism. Brutalism is awesome though, like a modern day architecture terrible from the 20th century totalitarians. Unpopular opinion, but I've always thought the Chinese did it best
Nah, went off on the "bigger and uglier".
And surely the Chinese did it fine, but Yugoslav Brutalism is just something else ;)
Yeah, when there is some real design work, rather than just big concrete block, brutalism can look very cool. However most places seemed to want to just go with dismal box as an aesthetic.
Nah I love big box brutalism. Gimme gimme gimme all those long, labyrinthine, resource-conscious angular concrete buildings. Just looking at my campus's inexplicably brutalist administrations office was my favorite part of university
I mean, there has to be someone that gets turned on by ugly, nothing wrong with that. Most people don't like it though.
Me: "Perhaps we should put function ahead of form"
Lemmy: "No"
There is a middle ground. Living in a concrete block city probably isn't the best for your mental health.
Show me an office tower that is not built with wrought iron and concrete. The thing people don't like about Brutalism is its honesty. If a layer of chinzy art deco spray painted Styrofoam is the difference between making it through the day and cracking up, you've got bigger problems.
This also heavily undersells how beautiful a clever concrete structure can be. I'll take eye-popping geometries of stone over flat texture-less mirror-window walls any day.
Nope, would look better with a paint job
The university I attended was almost entirely composed of brutalist buildings, and I loved it.
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