> But! There's hope in the horizon! A few trees grow in the courtyard. these are the only things that shatters this prison cell. That introduces hope and, yes, beauty. None of it manmade.
It is a wonderful campus to be on. Open air walkways between classes, vines growing everywhere, lots of natural light.
Concrete allowed for playing with new shapes and angles, the beauty is in the flow and dynamism of shapes.
Interiors like https://i.redd.it/e7yucwdqia461.jpg are wonderful to be in, and new technologies in construction materials and techniques made those interiors possible at a much lower price compared to what was possible before.
I'm not going to claim Brutalism has a good track record vs art deco or modern styles that incorporate natural material (loved me some mixed textures!) but claiming everything brutalist is ugly is just false.
It is a wonderful campus to be on. Open air walkways between classes, vines growing everywhere, lots of natural light.
Concrete allowed for playing with new shapes and angles, the beauty is in the flow and dynamism of shapes.
Go browse the top posts of https://www.reddit.com/r/brutalism/top/?t=all plenty of amazing buildings there.
Interiors like https://i.redd.it/e7yucwdqia461.jpg are wonderful to be in, and new technologies in construction materials and techniques made those interiors possible at a much lower price compared to what was possible before.
https://www.reddit.com/r/brutalism/comments/hlqa2l/geisel_li...
That is just cool.
I'm not going to claim Brutalism has a good track record vs art deco or modern styles that incorporate natural material (loved me some mixed textures!) but claiming everything brutalist is ugly is just false.
(another good entry, https://i.redd.it/5volkc9zx4561.jpg)