“What if we took the entire artistic conceit of brutalism and took that away, leaving just poured concrete in rectangles.”
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There were a series of test houses/neighborhoods in the US where they did this to create cheap, but sturdy and low-maintenence, homes. That’s exactly what happened and it’s why it never took off. Capitalists couldn’t make stupid amounts of money.
Thats like saying the best part of cubism is the faces being weird.
It matters why. The why is why it’s cool.Ornament is haram.
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the faces being weird is the only interesting thing about cubism
We live in a world where every major city is infested with huge steel and glass dildos and you’re complaining about some geometric bungalows?
Eva and Nils Koppel must pay for their crimes, yes.
You’re going to start an argument about brutalism on the commie website? You sure that’s a good idea? Look, a lot of us commies love Soviet brutalism specifically, and the whole aesthetic style in general.
The way I see it, the Soviets did it and it looked awesome. Build more commieblocks. If the buildings look too similar, paint parts of some of them red, or put up some commie symbols and Lenin monuments.
You’ve got my take on brutalism reversed.
So you’re in favor of brutalism, then? Good, then there’s not much argument to get into here.
What i said was that functionalism is brutalism but without the artistic conceit of brutalism, rendering it worse.
Well, I don’t really care about the artistic value or any of that surrounding any given aesthetic, I care whether it looks good. And brutalism is… really easy to fuck up, but the Soviets tended to do it really fucking well and make it look so good that specifically Soviet brutalism defined What Socialism Looks Like to Western eyes for the entire Cold War, for decades afterward, and likely for decades still to come. (Unfortunately, a lot of modern socialist state urban planning today has left Soviet brutalism behind, if those states and regions ever used it in the first place. Which sucks. Some of the aesthetics that replaced it are great. Some of them are… very much not. The “ultratech commie aesthetic” thing China’s got going on… I guess it looks neat in certain contexts, but I just don’t like the vibes as much as I like old Soviet brutalism, I guess.)
Funkopops you say?
It is the funkopops of architecture. It’s taking an existing artistic movement and draining it of all meaning to leave just a marketable husk.
