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[quote=Anonymous]In case anyone else wants a quick 101 on Brutalist architecture like me...

"Brutalism is the techno music of architecture, stark and menacing. Brutalist buildings are expensive to maintain and difficult to destroy. They can't be easily remodeled or changed, so they tend to stay the way the architect intended. Maybe the movement has come roaring back into style because permanence is particularly attractive in our chaotic and crumbling world.

Like the original noble intentions of left-leaning midcentury-modern structures, which were meant for the Everyman but have now often ended up serving as luxury status symbols, brutalist architecture—especially the few homes and converted commercial buildings that people can actually live in today—is pounced on by aesthetically focused elites. And, as is the case when any style is on the cusp of populist rediscovery, it is also simultaneously on the edge of obliteration by those who have not yet caught on to its value....

Not surprisingly, there are feverish arguments over which designers and architects, exactly, qualify as brutalists. The category is broad and ill-defined....

It was a daring and exciting architectural movement, and there are few places on the map without a decent brutalist example or two. Let's treasure and help preserve them from those who are determined to reduce them all to rubble"

https://www.gq.com/story/9-brutalist-wonders-of-the-architecture-world[/quote]

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