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Wednesday, October 12. 2016

Is Brutalism cool?


Nikil Saval at the NYT thinks it is. Like, I think, most people, I find it dehumanizing, cold, ugly, and intimidating just as its nickname implies. It says to me "You are entering Franz Kafka's nightmare."


That old Whitney Museum in NYC is just as hideous under its new name. It is unpleasant inside, too. I just figure that Bauhaus wasn't ugly or inhuman enough, so, to make a name for themselves, architects had to take ugly to its endpoint.

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:31 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Ugly is ugly, no matter how "clever" the name.
#1 Mark on 2016-10-12 20:12 (Reply)
But especially when it's totally accurate.
#2 Sam L. on 2016-10-12 21:00 (Reply)
Iowahawk had some good tweets about Brutalism on Wednesday.

David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog Oct 11
.@GregRohrbough @BookOfTamara Not surprisingly, Brutalism is largely confined to government or college buildings.

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/785884099177086976

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David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog Oct 11
.@BookOfTamara I'm an unapologetic fan of Mid-Century Modernism, which is human-positive. Brutalism is the ethos of society as prison.

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/785876538482753537
#3 Kurt on 2016-10-13 17:03 (Reply)

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