It's sadistic authoritarianism as designer. Just to pick out one aspect: raw concrete is a viciously cruel material to use in human spaces. It tears at your skin if you rub against it. It slowly crumbles. It's hard to clean.
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To modify it you need heavy equipment, and patches/repairs never match the original. My mom worked at a university with a brutalist campus, and the walls *stank* because students would cram chewed gum into holes and crevices.
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Can't clean gum out of pourous surfaces like that without heavy equipment. Mom permanently damaged her back falling on a set of steps that were a) built to the wrong scale b) had no support railing because c) 'aesthetic'.
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When I first flew into the Vilnius airport, the first thing I saw were decrepit Khrushchev-era apartment blocks made from hastily-poured concrete. Many Soviet residents had no choice but to live in them.
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So, guilt by association for me. Brutalism is totalitarian. I have no opinion on Greek architecture. Bleached marble looks pretty, I guess.
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You have to slather it with that horrible industrial yellow latex paint if you want it to be cleanable/not tear off the skin of prisoners and students (but I repeat myself).
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