Brutalist style
Very young children undergo a phase where they delight in repeating words of a scatological or otherwise gross or offensive nature that they picked up somewhere. You shouldn't worry too much - it's just a phase and they soon grow out of it.
Much in the same way, architects delight in imposing the ugliness of sheer concrete on buildings that then become eyesores the public has to endure for decades, until it is finally torn down. Probably the root cause is the same that motivates children - the delight in causing annoyance and outrage.
However, unlike children, architects never grow out of it, and more's the pity.
Argus C3 (late 1946)
f/3.5 50mm Argus Cintar
Kodak TMAX 400 Black&White negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Brutalist style
Very young children undergo a phase where they delight in repeating words of a scatological or otherwise gross or offensive nature that they picked up somewhere. You shouldn't worry too much - it's just a phase and they soon grow out of it.
Much in the same way, architects delight in imposing the ugliness of sheer concrete on buildings that then become eyesores the public has to endure for decades, until it is finally torn down. Probably the root cause is the same that motivates children - the delight in causing annoyance and outrage.
However, unlike children, architects never grow out of it, and more's the pity.
Argus C3 (late 1946)
f/3.5 50mm Argus Cintar
Kodak TMAX 400 Black&White negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de