Brutalism: a style that I only find aesthetically pleasing if it's so covered in plants that I can barely see the monochromatic color and stark angles. I guess it works as a giant plant stand that people can live and work in? 🤷♀️
yeah sure, what exactly do you want out of architecture?
I just think it's funny that the only way I don't find brutalism totally repellant is if it's so covered in plants that you can barely see the underlying structure. At that point, my reaction is more "I like plants" than "I like brutalism." I only like it if I can barely see it, and I think that's mildly amusing.
well, i'm a 3m x 3m x 3m concrete cube without any plants on me and that really hurts my feelings
Please tell me there's at least some color other than plain concrete
I can change color depending on the mineral content and pH of the rain
Y'all motherfuckers need Ivry sur Seine.
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Hot take but Brutalism is genuinely beautiful and breathtaking and it doesnt require the vague social context of "its mean to be ugly" to be appreciated, its grand and there is so much you can do within the restriction and combination of simple materials and geometry assembled in unique ways without a bunch of religious/aristocratic imagery or just turning it into a glass blob.
i have warm feelings for it from my grandfather taking me into various brutalist buildings when i was young. they were often cool govt. run places like museums and libraries and other things (he was a new dealer and strongly believed in govt. cultural services). so i associate it with childhood wonder more then "stark ugly concrete etc".
I feel like people are just stuck in the meme of "No likey concrete so ugly" to actually appreciate raw geometry without a ton of embellishments stuck onto it.
Go off. It's amazing and I get the same sense of wonder. Enough so that I use it as Dwarven architecture in my dungeons and dragons lol
Isn't concrete like, incredibly environmentally unfriendly?
It releases a lot of carbon to create it. But then it's possible in some circumstances to use concrete in a way that makes heating extremely efficient, so over enough time it can save carbon over other materials
Idk I think i'd like it better if it weren't so grey I think id it was all one in bright white and with more sunlight it'd feel more cheerful
