Brutalist Architecture

How does Sup Forums feel about brutalism?

I'm very fond of the monolithic, unchanging, almost hostile/forboding inhuman look of many brutalist buildings, as if the building itself is a living authoritative figure, unwavering and uncaring about people's thoughts and opinions; it is there to serve a purpose, and its purpose is absolute. Immovable and all-powerful, likening to absolute military might and totalitarianism.

In the U.S., many government buildings tend to follow brutalist architectural design, and I think the feelings that we attribute to them in passing are very subtle/subliminal, but powerfully set along the lines of, "THIS means authority; fear it."

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People literally pay your year's salary to live in those if the location is right.

Communist culture destroying "architecture".

It is the blue pill in building form. Forget your past and traditions comrade, only glorious utilitarian buildings commissioned by the state.

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It's Jewish.

I work at BU and a lot of the buildings are brutalist. Reminds me Starcraft so I think it's neat desu. Would much rather live in my beautiful place though

Degenerate communist robotic shit.

All modern architecture sucks. Im an Architectural Engineer working in institutions like universities.

Mass walls were the way to roll, all this mininalist shit just adds complexity and takes away ALL WORKSMANSHIP. Builders used to be artists. Now they are just beaners slapping metal shingles on a CFMF and gyp sheathing wall.

The nazis did quasi-brutalist architecture quite well, but that shit in OP's image is just ugly.

Baylor?

Austin, Texas here working at UT projects.

Here is one downtown I actually like working on, simple.

One of the biggest crimes to humanity

Only wretched and ugly people admire it

Pure glass buildings are shit

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God tier : Antoni Gaudi

Brutalism can look very good, like or Sadly, most of the time, it is just sad looking concrete.

Depends. We have some brutalist buildings from fascist times which have elements of classical architecture and are quite nice, but commie blocks are depressing as fuck

i kinda like it.

Gaudi isn't brutalism

Agreed. But this one was done right. There is an unconditioned garage for the first 7 floors, hard to tell eh?

Also, unitized CWS installed from interior and self gasketing. Its a dream for an envelope consultant. Production is super fast.

Wanna see some shit tier architecture? Check this badass condos lol

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Cost matters. Lower cost means a happier client. Minimalism typically results in cost savings, unless it's postmodern garbage.

>tfw Sam Hyde got me into Brutalist Architecture

youtube.com/watch?v=lZ5yDHkvPlM
Go to around 10:45 if you watch the vid

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Astounding. Absolutely stunning.

If we study the course of our cultural life during the last 150 years we shall be astonished to note how far we have already gone in this process of retrogression. Everywhere we find the presence of those germs which give rise to protuberant growths that bring about the ruin of our culture. Here we find undoubted symptoms of slow corruption; and woe to the nations that are no longer able to bring that morbid process to a halt.
In almost all the various fields of Western art and culture those morbid phenomena may be observed. "Dadaism", "Cubism", "Futurism" "Brutalism" are some examples.
Here everything seems to have passed the culminating point of its excellence and to have entered the curve of a hasty decline. At the beginning of the century the theatres seemed already degenerating and ceasing to be cultural factors, except the Court theatres, which opposed this prostitution of the national art. With these exceptions, and also a few other decent institutions, the plays produced on the stage were of such a nature that the people would have benefited by not visiting them at all. A sad symptom of decline was manifested by the fact that in the case of many 'art centres' the sign was posted on the entrance doors: FOR ADULTS ONLY."

more like this

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love it.

The term "Quasi-brutalist" is important I think. One can still clearly see the neo-gothic neo-classical element (arches, columns, etc) motiff shine through in both those images of Nazi architecture.

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Gaudi is god tier artistry and supreme worksmanship. Abstract irregular and unique.

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Is this really a good example of brutalist architecture? Typical brutalist buildings have a form-follows-function appearance, and that just doesn't seem to be the case in your picture.

Why the fuck can we not get an /arch/ ????

Screw architecture threads in damn arts n crafts.

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Ottawa is full of ugly shit like this

>How does Sup Forums feel about brutalism?

With the threat of soviet nuclear destruction they are kinda of comforting. Absent that they are grimdark reminders of what happens when you let (((them))) be in charge of architecture for your city.

Sorry, no Gaudi doesnt have anything to do with brutalism.

But DAMN look at this work.

do you guys only like brutalism because its bleak and evil looking?

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moot said there's not enough interest, don't know what chinese moot thinks

That's not brutalist

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Awesome if done with creativity, not just some lazy fuck architect who was inspired by a UPS box.

I didn't say it was actually brutalist.

doesn't have to be

This is a grey area but here you go
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_architecture

Early example of modern """art"""
Absolutely disgusting

If it's done correctly, it can be absolutely stunning. Concrete can offer almost unlimited creative freedom and good brutalist buildings manage to balance the delicate and imposing elements.

Most of the time it's pure shit, since unimaginative hacks think they can plonk a random geometric shape into a city and call it a day.

Maybe we could make an architecture general on /his/?

Who was the (((artist)))? Can't see any last names

>dadaism
>modern art

Cool. Interesting article.

>Immovable and all-powerful, likening to absolute military might and totalitarianism.

you could topple the whole fucking thing by taking out a single column with nothing but over the counter chemicals.

I look at these rows of homes, and I wonder more of the community: do they interact? How? I only see the plus side of it being affordability.

It's beautiful in a cold, calculating way, but only if the people are productive.

Marcel Duchamp


>Implying
It's literally the roots of "modern" art

Duchamp. He's French and he regrets doing it because of the movement it started. Sometimes throughout his life he said it was just a joke and wasn't actually meant to be art.

Marcel Duchamp

I love brutalist airports and military offices.

brutalism is a reaction to modernism in the 50s. Nazis were creating their own style based on the imposing nature of the architecture of the Roman Empire. The only similarity is the concrete and large, solid shapes. The design language and goals of both movements are totally different.

Jew Kahn

Yeah. If any architects or engineers want to man up.
AE911TRUTH.ORG

Fuck the psyOPs the fucking science cannot back up what happened that day.

Bleh that pic makes me feel like it's 1997 and I'm in a slightly rundown government office waiting for some big hair lady with high wasted denim jeans to bring me some papers. Also the air inside feels cold but damp.

To be fair, so are latkas.

I agree, though the nature of the designs in both movements are very similar. - As you said "concrete and large, solid shapes" - and of course that what the eye is immediately drawn to.

This is Hotel UMass in Amherst, Massachusetts. I stayed here a year ago for an event. It was pretty cool. A lot of buildings on the UMass Amherst campus are brutalist.

People actually like this kind of architecture? It's fucking dirt poor commie tier architecture.

I like it. I don't prefer it over classical architecture, but I still like it.

Just a suburb master race passing through.

Awful. It was made because it was cheap, inevitably stuck up hipster fags of the 60s pretended they like it because it's cool to like stuff that nobody else likes.
Completely soulless, it's like someone just dropped a building in your city and said
>alright, here's your building you fucking peasants, deal with it

>Communist culture destroying "architecture".
Here's capitalism architecture.

The neoclassical elements are the key distinction. Brutalism had more modern ties and relied on a lot of texturing.

Looks fake and plastic-y

Look into new urbanism. It has a more 'real' feeling to it

our University of Engineering

not really a fan of brutalism but I feel its conocept suits well with the career of engineering

to serve a purpose, being just practical no matter how ugly people think it looks

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I like that it looks like a alt history castle and moat

add another check to the "Monarchy is best" list.

This fampai
Clients will always settle for a lower cost, but functionable, of course. Modern designs were made for that purpose.. "Less is more"

All the liberal cities will be nuked in 2020 as part of the opening acts of World War 3.

My thinking exactly.

How long until there's a UN resolution made that all nations agree to remove the disgusting cancer that brutalism is from the face of the Earth?

What a time to be alive, westerners like brutalism. Too bad I'm from an ex-socialist country and every time I see brutalist architecture, it reminds me of poverty, hopelessness, helplessness and grief.

Read this article.
thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/01/how-jews-created-american-modernism.html

American modernism is Jewish architecture that they invented because they felt estranged from Western culture.
Most Western architecture was based on Greek, Roman and Christian architecture. Jews wanted to destroy that because they were estranged to all of those.

To answer your question, people like you are the reason we will never get /arch/

We have commie blocks on STILTS here.

That's because the USSR did Brutalism really badly.

This is called neo-klassizisim.

Reminds me of FPS game levels.

the American Embassy in here is super brutalist too

Gaudi isn't Brutalist.

I have one. Lots of government buildings up here are straight up shitty brutalism for the sake of being cheap and "standard" ....so ugly

I like it, it is serious, rugged and unpretentious.

>Now they are just beaners slapping metal shingles on a CFMF and gyp sheathing wall.


maybe in murrica
youtube.com/watch?v=PB8TWMKHHMQ

Material art that aims to provoke the intellect instead of provoking the emotions by means of proper stimulation of the intellect is degenerate.

Pleb tier taste in architecture, famalam. Baroque architecture is still authoritative looking, but is also still nice to look at.

That location would be fine if the Buildings where the same dam color and roofs/grounds around them had actual plants instead of dirt.

If communism is robotic

Capitalism is Cancer.

My school's library is a spaceship looking brutalist motherfucker

You're a good little communist. Why would any man want his State's buildings to exert foreboding, hostile and uncaring power towards him? That's Soviet Russia to a T.

German National Socialist buildings were proud , beautitful and more in the Roman style, which is much more conducive to a healthy and cooperative relationship between man and state.

Garbage architecture made by jews who want to save money

binned

"Brutalism" isn't meant to be brutal in the sense of harshness or being unwavering or uncaring; the name comes from the root "brut" in a lot of languages meaning "raw", and Brutalism refers more to the use of poured concrete and raw panels for things instead of painting and fancy facades of brick and stone.

A lot of the "brutal" seeming buildings from the era are only brutal because they're from a brutal era of living spaces in general, demanding lots of cheap tall buildings to form tenement housing.

I kinda like it but it's hard to keep looking pretty because concrete gets so fucking dirty so fucking fast. It's big in Quebec.

you should visit the St-Jean "Mega" sometime then

it's not even SUPPOSED to look like a prison, it just does because brutalist megaplexes can't not look like prisons