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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What they don't tell you is how viscerally hostile it is at the level of your flesh. Huge amounts of barren, wasted space to trudge across, weird barriers and obstacles scattered everywhere, the sheer visual awfulness of mildewed, crumbling concrete at eye level.
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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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