Is brutalist architecture a political statement? A philosophical one? Is it intentionally subversive or simply a sign of the times?
Is brutalist architecture a political statement? A philosophical one...
Adrian Cook
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John Taylor
idk but brutalist is a cool sounding name.
Nathan Ward
that building would look magestic as fuck in the middle of a boreal forrest or a jungle.
Adrian Collins
it's a crime against humanity
Isaiah Turner
I see that building every day.
>.t UCSDfag
Eli Clark
Brutalist does sound cool
(((Brutalism))) is about the most Jewish architectural style there is. Compare it to the beauty and craftsmanship of ancient European cities. It is a travesty what they've replaced
Jaxon Davis
its the melodic death metal of architecture
Ethan Perez
It's meant to make the individual feel small. I suppose if you're running a totalitarian government it might be useful.
Cameron Perry
It’s jewish communist cancer growths.
Nicholas Wood
Asher Fisher
The old apartheid government built some brutalist masterpieces.
Ian Torres
It's stark and striking. It's 'ugly on purpose' like clashing colors or busy lines. I wouldn't want to live in a city filled with brutalist buildings, but I can certainly appreciate their lines, angles, and tone.
Juan Jackson
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Ayden Campbell
Everything is a philosophical statement. A particularly good one? You decide.
Landon Myers
Because I'm waiting for people's insight and thoughts, Carlos.
Kevin Johnson
Levi Torres
Wouldn't the same lines and angles look better with traditionalist decorations?
Leo Richardson
Chase White
>idk but brutalist is a cool sounding name.
Reminds me of rape, breaks my nofap of 3 hour 17 minutes.
Brody Rivera
Nathan Reed
Of course, but that's the point. It's uglier, heavier, more ominous and officious on purpose. The brutalist style is designed not to "look better" but to feel more heavy, more important. To look out of place, conspicuously, but at the same time, mundane.
Ethan Harris
Dylan Miller
That’s the library at my university. It’s kino as fuck. The whole area around the UCSD is dominated by brutalist architecture. Pic related is less than a mile away from Gisel Library
Ryan Adams
I personally believe that the modern Brutalist should be considered a canvas: If you used the vast surfaces for murals, hanging sculpture. tapestry and similar, you could evoke the power of such strong, bold edifices, while also softening and beautifying them for the humans that live and work there.
John Cooper
It’s a demoralisation tactic, it is depressing, and ugly to look at, it makes everything feel empty, and soulless, it is absolutely fucking terrible if you have to build it, and if often costs more to build than just a bitch basic glass, and steel construction, it has absolutely no purpose, but to make you feel bad, and to make the Jewish architect feel good as he looks at his monstrosity ruining the scenery.
Jack Young
I can't argue against these buildings' functionality, but what about beauty? Is soulless utilitarian practicality the best we can hope for from modern architecture? I might not have the keenest eye, but I don't see any spiritual value in these buildings, no inspiration. I understand that they look like this on purpose, but what is the point?
Not an architect, sorry. Just genuinely bewildered.
Angel Myers
Which isn't to say that brutalism can't attempt whimsy or fancy, but it goes against theme in my opinion.
Nolan Perez
I already explained it
Luis Nelson
That actually sounds pretty great. But from what I can see, the concrete is usually left bare.
Charles Clark
Here’s the Price Center in the same campus. The whole campus is brutalist in its architecture.
Grayson Hall
I understand that it's pretty applauded among modern architects for some reason. Is it just gleeful Derridan dismantling of all that is traditional and pretty, or something deeper?
Matthew Anderson
How sad and boring. Kill these architects Holy shit
Ayden Robinson
I could see this for law buildings, tons of grey concrete and stained wood inside. Nothing else. The symbol doesn’t hold up with a brutal library. Kill the architect
Jaxon Rivera
Here’s the campus housing...
Connor Kelly
>but what is the point?
To some, they consider brutalism's simple lines to be a thing of beauty in itself. Clean lines, unobstructed, simple points of perspective. To others, it's these shapes that lend to the building purpose. A heavy, dour building tells onlookers that this is a place of serious business and not some clown factory where you can fuck around. And then there's the concept of "difference" itself. Things can be interesting and attractive simply by not looking like everything else around it. Brutalism doesn't appeal to everyone, but the 'effect' of brutalism works on nearly everyone.
Luke Morris
brutalist style was a copout by real-socialists who needed to build a huge amount of infrastructure on a budget. as a cheap, functional building style I can tolerate it. picrel was built by Tito's Yugoslavia in my hometown to house the TV station. as a building of strategic importance these were built like a fortress (4 years of combat barely scratched it).
anyone doing brutalist architecture for aesthetics, where resources permit a more traditional architectural and building style is a retard and should be shot.
Gavin Robinson
That’s actually one of the most iconic brutalist structures in the world. It’s used in a lot of those abstract automobile commercials. You’ve definitely seen it before
Aiden Taylor
>The most Jewish
Let me guess, you’ve never heard of (((Parasitic))) architecture.
Daniel Fisher
That looks more 'modernist' than brutalist. Large windows, different sized windows, windows with aluminum frames, these aren't really in theme with brutalism.
Matthew Lee
It’s just some scumbag kike architects wanking each other off, they know it looks like shit, they know it isn’t even functionally any better than a normal building, and they know everyone hates it, but that’s exactly why they keep doing it, they love destroying beautiful European structures, dismantling them, and replacing them with generic, eye destroying garbage, they know they will get away with it, and those buildings stand as permanent reminders of Europe’s degradation from being the capital of the world in terms of glory, and beauty.
Zachary Walker
Mother of God.
Blake Campbell
Some brutalism in madrid.
Personally I think that it has it's place. But it should never be destined for common use. It's made for making an impact.
Asher Parker
Eli Garcia
Pic related Illumina Inc. Campus a mile down the road. Gene sequencing company. Most of these brutalist structures house the biggest biotech firms in the country. The architecture of transhumanism
Jaxon Campbell
I agree. It stands out, looks unique. And when used for government or office buildings, it reinforces the purpose.
Zachary Roberts
Actually you’re right. Not enough concrete
Adam White
That’s not really brutalist architecture.
Asher King
This gem was recently renamed the Fidel Castro Building.
Gabriel Cruz
Classic turkey
Austin Lewis
Isaiah Jackson
Lincoln Parker
While not brutalism, this is also a controversial design style. And it shares some of the themes of simplicity or rather, intentional unadornment.
Leo Baker
this is my local library
Parker Long
I’m really liking the depressing hopeless dystopian feel of this one
Luis Edwards
and here it is 40 odd years later
hate that i see this piece of shit almost every day
Jaxson Bennett
I love how the South African government weren’t completely sure if they could hold the monkeys forever, and because of that they never bothered wasting any serious amount of money building beautiful buildings, and instead went for purely practicality, because what’s the point of building something beautiful if your going to lose it to some retards a few years later.
Luke Reed
Right. I’m not in to architecture but I spent time on these campuses and there’s a striking departure from classical styles
Ryan Parker
A good rule to determine if it's brutalist is the simple question of "If I shot a cannon at it, would I expect something to break?"
If the answer is no, you're looking at a brutalist or re-purposed post war structure (like a Flak Tower)
Jeremiah Sanders
Nice INGSOC vibes...
Easton Rogers
It’s like they build it specifically to repulse people.
Blake Moore
Looks like something out of Aeon Flux
Dominic Brown
I feel like it's the whole point of brutalism and it's really disturbing.
It's like we sacrifice beauty to make a pretentious point. Architecture should make people feel relaxed and happy. It's not a painting that can be avant-garde for the sake of originality. People actually use these buildings.
Jacob Ortiz
Basically like pic related... if it was used as a office building instead of a German fortification on the French coast
Benjamin Roberts
I suspect they thought if they built it out of concrete it would last longer once nogopaclypse happened.
Hunter Phillips
>there’s a striking departure from classical styles
Which lends to visual interest in many cases. These days, classical styles are actually much rarer so they're the interesting styles.
This one has a lighter, more "De Stijl" feel to it. Pretty ugly though, desuyo.
Nathan Powell
I mean it looks like something a authoritarian world government would build in a alternate timeline
I like it
Daniel Rodriguez
Juan Myers
I didnt know there was a word for it. How horrifying.
Samuel Robinson
I have the great good fortune to live in a city with many gems. I made a tour of them a year ago. Dumping...
A local hospital complex.
Matthew King
Swooping lines are futuristic and fanciful, reminiscent of the space age 60's. Not really brutalist at all.
Jaxson Gray
These ones have a comfy cyberpunk feel to them.
Some of these aren't brutalist, more like contemporary or modernist (don't know the name).
I was always fond of this building.
Josiah Reyes
They were accurate in their prediction, it will unfortunately take far longer to collapse now, but considering the behaviour of nogs, I suspect they will bring the it down one way or another.
Owen Young
What I assume is the service/elevator shaft of an apartment block (nice stark photo in overcast weather, with my bad camera...)
Hunter Foster
But there’s a huge concrete bridge structure/platform that it sits on. Id concede it as a brutalist/modernist hybrid though.
Joseph Hill
Easton Sanders
up-from-under view of student housing. Not strictly brutalist but they were going for a similar conceit.
Kayden Morales
Must admit that I actually like many brutalist structures. The only problem I have with brutalism is when a classical or historical building is torn down to be replaced with a brutalist one, but it is even worse today when it would be replaces with a disgusting formless modern structure.
At least brutalism is usually geometrically pleasing and it looks imposing. Not to mention it has gone out of vogue with (((architects))) so one does not really see new brutalist buildings anymore.
I would take brutalism over modernist heaps of trash structures any day.
Alexander Kelly
A particularly autistic apartment building. I love its obdurate geometry.
Jose Thompson
Everyone who calls brutalism jewish is incorrect. Corbu, The one who pioneered brutalism, literally said that the jews had rotted his country and backed french fascist parties.
The real architecturepill: putting ornament and decoration of buildings is philosophically and morally the same as covering your body in tatoos.
Gabriel Cox
its a Menorah
Asher Wood
I love this kind of architecture.
Jaxson Sanchez
Juxtaposition of industrial feel on a place of higher learning calls the metaphor of a human robot factory.
Noah Davis
>Is brutalist architecture a political statement? A philosophical one? Is it intentionally subversive or simply a sign of the times?
Any art or architecture, which is also an art can be any or all of those things.
Pic seems somewhat related.
Aaron Gonzalez
side view of yet another local commieblock.
Xavier Carter
library at my old school. I still check books out from there once in a while.
Ethan Bell
>Architecture should make people feel relaxed and happy.
Every single time and every single building made for every single purpose? Nah. Some buildings should look imposing and specifically 'brutal.' Not all buildings, not even most, but the idea that every building should look like a victorian home is misguided.
Also, there's better and worse brutalism. Pic related is a particularly bad example that has already been demolished. Although even this structure had its fans.
Ryan Sanders
>Building something your children will marvel at and want to defend is bad
Wew lad.
Parker Campbell
John Flores
Underviews are often unintentionally very interesting.
BEHOLD KEK, FOR HE HAS SEEN YOU
Jaxon Campbell
Former law school, building next door to previous. When he first saw it, dad was visibly disgusted and called it "Stalinist". Based building.
Now it's just used as an admin building for tertiary apparatchiks, (((diversity))) offices, that type of thing.
Dominic Watson
It's a subset of modern architecture so the basic idea of form follows function is present. That said I don't really like any architectural movement that doesn't include ornament, because most of the buildings from modernist and postmodernism movement lack decoration, all the creativity of the artist is jammed into the shape of the structure leaving a very limited range of originality compared to other styles. I wish people would be more willing to get their hands dirty so to speak with ornamentation because Neoclassical architecture is the best postmodern offshoot imo. It's very boring to look at plain walls. I was taking the Amtrak and in Chicago of all places I think I saw the most beautiful architecture in the United States so far in the train station there (Union I think)? The walls, ceiling, everything was teeming with decoration and detail, almost uncomfortably so.
Lucas Fisher
Jews
Luis Thompson
I feel like the whole point was always comfy futuristic/cyberpunk aesthetic. Really wouldn't mind more of it. It definitely fits in with Greco-Roman, art deco, and classical better than glass-and-steel monstrosities.
Adrian Taylor
>movement based in inversion and removal of all cultural/national qualities
you tell me
Colton Miller
He proposed function over form, but the brutalist (((architects))) of today simply want to make something as unsightly as possible, they go out of their way to make building look as ugly as possible, and while he may have been against Jews, they have picked up his architecture ideas, and brutalised them for fun.
Dylan Turner
Have another. Probably the most quintisentially brutalist building in the area (another university's arts building).
Jose Walker
This was once the most expensive hotel in Jo'burg. Now boarded up and disused.
Oliver Gomez
Full profile of same...
I do like how the extremely heavy top-element seems to be held in place through sheer autism alone.
Luis Moore
I love how most people can't understand the difference between cheaply made, modular commie blocks and brutalist architecture. Its such a garbage style
Aiden Moore
Brutalism simply does not work with red brick. Black and grey only. Paintings and murals on the concrete would look amazing too.
Personally think my university, VCU in Virginia, is a good example of bad brutalism with red brick. Virginia Tech, I recall, has better brutalism.