Posts Tagged ‘design’

Brutalist architecture looks ugly. Exposed concrete and featureless slabs. Boring, but obtrusively so. The architectural equivalent of a cinderblock pillow. Brutalist architecture looks powerful. Massive, fortress-like structures. Comfort and frivolity doesn’t belong here—only cold, solid strength. Brutalist architecture looks iconic. Gray giants imposing themselves into whatever landscape they happen to dominate. Honest. Anti-bourgeois. Unapologeticly present.…