When I was growing up my mom took classes at, and later worked for, Florida International University, whose main campus was built in pure '60s-'70s brutalist futurism. It's true what people say about it: it makes you feel small, isolated, overwhelmed. Like a toy.
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And heaven help the clumsy. Sharp corners everywhere, concrete stairs and sidewalks ready to tear you up if you should stumble. They had to retrofit in a bunch of non-brutalist handrails once the lawsuits started.
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The campus has changed a lot but here's a picture of two of the oldest buildings. Notice the drained-swimming-pool-plus-pointless-stairs of the territory between them.pic.twitter.com/EV2HxeA81o
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Bigger photo: https://readtiger.com/img/wkp/en/DM_square.JPG … There's some greenery, but most of it was in the form of barriers, not livable space. [nb: in this part of Florida, 'greenery' means a sort of permanently faded greeny-orangey-brown]
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I think the buildings in the background are dormitories, built much later in a popular Miami 'fun' brutalist variant with lots of pastel colors.
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Everything's still a giant concrete box, but you put ochre stucco or Miami Vice-colored panels on it. Very popular for shopping malls in the 90s.
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