Brutalism merely removes the layers of gilt and ornamentation that allow people to tolerate inhuman and hateful architecture. Wrought-iron anti-sleeping railings on park benches are no less evil than concrete dividers made to serve the same purpose, even if they are prettier.https://twitter.com/palecur/status/988549437713625089 …
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
'This evil is impolite and without the facade of niceness' is not a super awesome selling point for evil, ijs
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Replying to @palecur
fair, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that brutalism is fully capable of human-scale architecture and spaces designed for people, the problem is evil architecture itself, not the style that removes the ornamentation that allowed us to ignore it. Don't shoot the messenger.
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
what if the messenger remains ugly and depressing to behold (much like my posting :| )
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Replying to @palecur
I'm going to go find some examples of beautiful and livable brutalist built environments and come back to you
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
my foresight indicates that they won't look brutalist
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Replying to @palecur
This might be hard to define but to me brutalist architecture is about foregrounding and celebrating functional elements instead of hiding them.
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
that actually sounds nice, but my impression is that it's much more about buildings that look like ugly slabs and prioritizing cliffs of concrete over *having* functional elements.
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Replying to @palecur @hikikomorphism
like, functional elements *should* and *can be* beautiful! Gaudi was incapable of not making a building that was both.
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how about if for every brutalist skyscraper i get you get one art nouveau skyscraper
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Replying to @chaosprime @hikikomorphism
make it art deco and you have a deal
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