That one building looks like some sort of battleship

The fact that the first building was a animal testing lab makes it so much darker

A few of my friends profess to loving brutalist architecture but they all live in nice cosy Victorian houses. That is quite telling I find.

They could not make the animal testing lab look more like a supervillain base if they tried.

"cheaper to build to keep the rents down" - and then marketed as super hipster stylish special buildings for double the rent as elsewhere. also unplastered concrete is generally awful to live in.. each time you want to hang a picture you have to get out the Hilti. and it looks dirty, unfinished, with the charme of a jail block.

I've lived in Berlin and have walked by many of these buildings shown in the segment that happen to be in my neighborhood. I never had the impression that these buildings were inviting though. I can appreciate the design constraints that the neo-Brutalism style attempts to address. For some, this may be an appealing aspect of modern architecture in the city.

when the architect actually wanted to build a battleship but had to build a house ..

It's certainly an interesting style, but it's better limited to small doses and often the buildings are in fact greatly improved by finishing the concrete in one way or another. You certainly do not want an entire city around you to be built like that, it's depressing.

Man i love when the buildings that surround my area of work/living are antagonistic and controversial. Really helps me paint my life exactly like that.

That battleship looking animal testing lab is nicknamed Mäusebunker ("bunker of mice") by the locals. Pretty fitting name, imo.

Brutalism is the architectural equivalent of Cosmic Horror: you might find it fascinating and even charming, but you wouldn't like it happening to you.

Brutalist architecture, for me gives off a feeling of might and power, like a monument to time, challenging time to destroy it

also ich kann verstehen dass man die alten dinger nicht abreißen will (bezogen auf das argument mit gründerzeit architektur) aber muss man wirklich noch mehr so klötze bauen?

The Animal testing centre looks like something out of 1984

a beautiful space should not "take getting used to". it should inspire awe and make you want to spend time in it on first glance. structural components being "glossed over" is not the only alternative to brutalism. take a column, for example. you could just make a concrete pillar and call it a day, brutalism. or you could make a concrete pillar with a facade, tasteless modern architecture, which this video seems to take as the alternative to brutalism. or you can make a column and accentuate it, pouring it or cutting it normally, or with flutes, but adding an aesthetically appealing base and capital, with attention to entasis, like what western and some eastern architecture have been doing for thousands of years. sucks living in a world where the choices are shitty with a facade or just plain shitty.

That style could work as a government building/office o military defense structure.. or could be a museum or buildings that house art exhibitions... But no way it will work as an apartment building, or any dwelling structure that people will live inside it

I've always hated how these buildings look, ever since I was a child....there's something cold and emotionless about them, like blocks that were dropped down on us from a mechanical alien species

Where is the mug shot of the architect who designed this building?

To me, it is neither love nor hate. Some of them are nice when well placed and others are really a mistake.

There is no coincidense that tourists flock to the older parts of a city. Start building beautiful again.

That last comparison of Brutalism to the emerging "crafts movement" sounds laughably stupid to me. When thinking about craftsmanship in architecture I picture timbered houses, not giant nacked blocks of concrete stacked ontop of each other to keep costs down and to be potentially mass produced. While (Neo-)Brutalism certainly is unconventional and possibly interesting, that statement just sounds like typical, empty marketing gibberish.

People need to live not just breath. To be able to feel at home and be safe, a comfortable space. Just my opinion, Brutalist Architecture is yes based on necessity and practicality and I respect that but can it be less brutal? I mean buildings can be practical and at the same time be comfortable and not too expensive. I just don't find it good.

I don't like the design of many of these buildings and I'm repelled by their pure concrete production style - I much rather like to see more wood being implemented into buildings. Concrete is just not the right thing.

Brutalism is just one horrible outgrowth of modernism. Almost all of modernism is soul-crushing and ugly, however due to the name, Brutalism gets a lot of the hate that all of modernism deserves. Modernism is the reason why so many cities on the planet today look the same and are ugly and depressing. It is an almost universally hated style, yet among architects, modernism is still a favourite. It is a great injsutice, that people still have to endure modernism just because architects are still indoctrinated by the ideologies of Mies, Corbusier and Wright. The only way to build sustainably is with timeless-classic architecture instead of trendy-modernist architecture that alway quickly goes out of style and then looks ugly.

This is actually one of my favorite styles of architecture

The interiors actually look amazing

Buildings from 1880 have a beautiful facade, tall rooms, beautiful balconies, welcoming entrances. These buildings look like the design workflow went "File > New > Save As..."

I find this style kinda interesting, it make me think that i should focus on my task right now and the building itself defend me from all distraction. It is like a fort of solitude. But i would not prefer a whole city in that style, just use it occasionally.

Buildings wouldn't look so bad if someone would just pressure wash them.

I truly, TRULY, hate brutalism, modernism and its derivatives. Start building beautiful things again!

"like this former animal testing laboratory..." Sums up the image associated with this type or architecture as well as the type of people it appeals to.

I pass by the building in 0:56 quite often and I must say that it is a pain and an eyesore beyond belief, especially because it is in a rather green and residential area so it looks so wrong and disgusting especially when looking at it from the Teufelsberg, a hill nearby. Also most people think it just ruins the calmness in the area, which it does.

Personally not a big fan of the aesthetic and having a city full of this style would be horrendous. But nonetheless I would still love to have some of these make up part of the architectural landscape as they bring a nice variety and contrast to all the other buildings you find in Berlin.

"We'll show those silly bourgeois who's boss"

so i haven't been lazy my whole life leaving things half finished; i have just been a brutalist. thanks youtube and Dw Euromaxx.

Can't believe they left out the ICC Berlin, has been my favorite building ever since I've been a kid. It looks like some dystopian space ship

Fact: none of the brutalism lovers live in those buildings

You know what Brutalist architecture really is when you are from a post-communist country. Almost all buildings built in the communist era are Brutalist buildings to cut down the building cost. I also love Brutalist buildings I think they are really fascinating and un-human ilke. They look like they are from a sci-fi movie where non-human sentient beings roam, live, work, etc...

The part about leaving it unfinished was straight up dystopian. There needs to be some kind of rent control if people are getting so desperate that they'll live in rough concrete boxes

The key to life and enjoying art is to understand you don't need to judge any of it. The beauty is in the understanding. All preference is just perspective. If you can appreciate that, you can appreciate all creative expressions.

Theese buildings are hideous. Gives me depression just by looking at it.

IMHO, Brutalism is some fringe fetish some architects have to shock other architects. I don't get it. It's main claim to fame is that it is "polarizing" - why would that be good thing? That literally means that many people hate it, and some like it because other people hate it. I think there are better styles that cause thought and discussion, without having to have so many people hate it.

Brutalism is urban and amazing as fuck. I'm from a more rural place, seeing the brutalist suburbs of Hamburg built in the 70s always gave me a thrill as a kid - made me studying architecture and travelling around Asian cities eventually. Time to bring on the neobrutalism!

Let’s not forget - brutalist architecture was intended to be very raw out of necessity and practicality. When looking at these buildings, it’s a bit like looking at a skeleton that is fulfilling its purpose. While I don’t like the style, I can respect its philosophy.

DW, please don’t self-flagellate!! Brutalist architecture is MUCH more than that! Back when Venezuela 🇻🇪 was the epicentre of the Americas; Brutalist architecture found the sweet spot! If you are not against, Please have a look at the following: - Teatro Teresa Carreño (Teresa Carreño Theater complex) - Torre Británica Caracas And there are Way much more all around the country!!

We have a few of these brutalist buildings here in Stockholm, and like most I've always considered them ugly and pointless. However, I had to admit that they stand out, and that someone put a lot of thought into them. When I look at what passes for new, upscale apartment buildings in the city, where they simply add a different green glass panel balcony to a big apartment building box and double the price.. brutalism suddenly doesn't look so pointless in comparison.

Le corbusier he also designed a whole city for India . (Chandigarh) Brutalist architecture can be seen all over the city .

I can't stand those architects that build stuff like that to make art but would never live in those "houses" themselves.

gothic, brutalist and Victorian architecture with natural overgrowth of useful yet beautiful plants is my idea of a perfect city.

I can't possibly imagine why anyone wants to live in one of those ridiculous blob of concrete. Looks so depressingly grey and dystopian quite frankly....

The mass of identical towers isn't worth preserving but as a fan of brutalist architecture I love the buildings you showed here. The apartment in the Corbusier house is such beautiful.. I would immediately would pick such an apartment for myself, the maisonette style is such wonderful and the bright colors make this really cozy.. and this testing lab.. Wow, I love this style, the pipes coming out of the structure are such a nice design element. Despite it's originally dark purpose I would love to see this converted to flats or a museum of brutalist architecture. If someone vandalizes this with graffiti and I've got free time, I would work for free to remove it.

Man that building looks like the bridge of some warship or something, I love it

They just immediately look Soviet XD

That one new building looks damn ugly and uncomfortable. Even judging from the outside look it should be considered a building sin...

I grew up in Germany and for a few years I went to a school in a brutalist building. It sucked the life out of me. Massive slabs of dark grey concrete on the outside, with an interior made of grim shades of white, maroon & sickly turquoise. It was sterile & filthy at the same time and overall had an oppressive, alienating affect on me. Brutalism is not just ugly, it's a direct assault on the human spirit. Let those hipster architects enjoy it as a curiosity, I'd rather die than spend any more of my life in or around one of those liminal hellscapes. Buildings are for humans to live/work in, not for preserving a part of history that was quite frankly a mistake.

I've seen some from the 70s whose angular forms mixed with green plants gives off the vibe of overgrown rocks and stones. That style I like. Others are just big ugly boxes.

It is so horrible and depressing that it only reflects the nihilism of XX century Europe. Build more Kölner Dom, more Schloss Neuchwanstein, more villages instead of dead, pale, cold and lifeless buildings!

the "architects" who love brutalist architecture all live as far away from it as possible, in classical and neoclassical villas. Says all you need to know about them. They want others to live in squalor while they swim in splendor.

Le Corbusier is an architect that no society has ever had a need for.

I love brutalist architecture, in small doses

its so funny that someone think this is beautiful. The architects literally just thought well little money and a lot of beton. The local population is gonna love it hahaa

As usual, architects doing a "intellectual" circle jerk about their ideas. The general population doesn't want your ideas, doesn't want to live in them and doesn't want to see them. Also, architects should have their main residence in the buildings they design. If this style was only applied to small, single family houses, then why not. But is usually about very big buildings, which have a too big impact on the character of a neighborhood, a negative impact usually.

Hoping Architects get replaced by egoless AI pretty soon that focus on quality of live for users and residents and over all sustainability of the building and nothing else.

Looks like a battleship on land. Looks very cool imo

Can you provide a citation regarding Le Corbusier's beliefs about colors? I have been to several of his buildings around Paris (Villa Savoye, Villa La Roche, and Villa Jeanneret) and frankly there's a lot of white space.

There’s quite a few of these here in South East Asia! Unfortunately there isn’t enough collective enthusiasm here to conserve these buildings.

Very good video! Teresa Carreño’s theater in Caracas was also build in the brutalist architectural style

Great video and great architecture. Given how I'm designing my own Brutalist tiny home out in the sticks, this is right up my alley!

I hate it. That’s also why I hate Berlin and like to life in Hamburg. Architects should build buildings, that are liked by most of the population. Because most of the time the architect himself doesn’t life in his buildings. He also doesn’t work in his building. Other people do. They don’t design those buildings for themself, they design it for the people, so they should design it in a way that most people are okay with. And for me that is a modern look, without much visible concrete. Just because it’s cheap, it doesn’t make it better. The fact that these concrete buildings are lived in by mostly poor people, you automatically concentrate poor people on one location that way. This has proven to have a number of problems. Those concrete „Blocks“ how they are called in Germany, attract criminal people of all kinds of life. You have dealer, prostitutes, alcoholic people and more concentrated on one spot together with poor familys, single mothers with multiple children and students that can’t afford much more. Those children who grow up in those concrete buildings are more likely to get themself criminal. For children it starts with having friends that take drugs at low age, because in these concrete Blocks you can get cheap drugs on every corner. I am speaking from experience. It goes on with making party’s yourself, having fun, meeting new people etc. But this will backfire quickly, maybe getting addicted to drugs or getting a venereal disease that fucks you for life, or getting beef with the wrong guys. And it finishes with not getting a degree from school because you were drunk every day the last week. So you struggle to get a job after school. But you know a guy, your dealer who you know could use some help, because the business is booming around the Block. You know how this works, because you handled drugs since you were 9. And you know there is a lot of money in that business. So you start dealing, small stuff at the beginning, but give that boy 3 years and he is a fully grown unemployed criminal who was in prison 2 times already. Those Blocks destroy our children’s future, listen to it via songs by those lucky ones who made it out in every German rap song. People don’t want to life in Blocks, the moment someone makes enough money to leave the Blocks, they will do it, no exception. Not because the buildings are unpretty, but because these buildings attract criminals and it is dangerous for children to live there. We need buildings that throw poor, middle class and rich people together. That way, criminals have a harder time to recruit children. But tell me about one rich guy who likes to life in one of those concrete apartments. No one wants that. I know I am bias on this topic, but I am speaking from experience. Everyone who supports these buildings, supports organized criminal gangs in Berlin. Those buildings stand for the recruiting tactics of criminals. Building more Blocks gives criminals a place where they are unseen by the police and government. It gives them a place to hide in public, while there are horrible things happening to teenagers and people in general. That’s why I am out of there, that’s why I life now in a better designed district in Hamburg, where at least poor people and middle class people co-exists. Where criminals can’t be to obvious, because they will get called out by the middle class people. This is a way friendlier environment to raise children. AND the buildings here are way nicer to look at, then those concrete Blocks.

As someone who has grown up around Brasilia, I have to say that everyone who enjoys brutalism should keep it for themselves within four walls and never display it publicly, there is nothing uglier. If you really want something pleasant, seek inspiration from ancient Greece or Rome.

i am amazed that there is a chiptune in the background :)

Would have been interesting to shortly adress the fact that concrete production is under stress because of sand becoming scarcer, and the environnemental issues connected to it

I think the buildings have some character but Jesus Christ please don't put them everywhere

these buildings are so ugly you can twist it and make them seem interesting but just because they are „different“ doesn’t mean they dont look uninviting and cold and are far from being aesthetically pleasing... but then again most modern architecture fits that criteria so

They should all be painted white. They would look very beautiful...

That last one you showed that you called a neo brutalist design look good.👍🏆👍

That is so cyberpunk

Beton ist toll, er sollte nur angestrichen werden mit Farbe, auch weiß. Lässt man den Beton so wie er ist, dann sieht er schnell schmutzig aus, was auch soziale Nebenwirkungen hat.

Probably the greatest threat to appreciating these buildings is the way that they are predominantly negatively introduced. In this way, the mind is hardened before it has been given an opportunity to explore its options. This video is an example of that with its title, which is meant to be extreme and provocative, yet which actually has nothing to do with how the architecture is talked about in the video itself. If people who are otherwise open to a multiplicity of architectural types are brought in to seeing and experiencing them in ways which are not immediately Either/Or, I think there could be a growing awareness of their legitimacy.

I think these brutalist buildings look cool from the outside if you have the right atmosphere, they need a little bit neon lights and then they have a Blade Runner 2049 look

I love it! So many buildings are so boring and common. These buildings really stick out. Its better to love or hate something instead of walking next to a building that you dont even notice because it looks so generic. I dont get why people love for example these fancy skyscrapers they build in Dubai but hate these brutalism buildings. Aesthetics are more complex than you think and many people seem to be blind for some aesthetics. They just focus on their first impression and judge way too fast.

The ugliest junk ever built. ...and some architects drool over this wonderful design.

Interesting style, some people will love it.

I've often thought this style would be much more palatable if they were painted. Not painted a single colour. Rather the buildings should be treated as a blank canvas to paint awesome murals on to.

Cooles Teil, wie ein Panzerschiff!

Looks like bunker from World War 2

You can also look up „alterlaa“ in vienna

Here is one thing you can learn about your inner self: If you like brutalism you have 0.0 perception of aesthetics.

I feel like 90% of architects of the past 70 years deserve to be slapped in the face. Hard. Repeatedly. If I don't like a certain style of painting, I can choose to go to a different gallery. We don't have that luxury with the cities we live in. Please design things that most people like, rather than the ugly crap which completely ignores the surroundings and environment that keeps getting built

brutalism "colourless" 1st example: Le corbusier's grey and COLOURED facade

the apartements in the corbusier house are quite nice

My college was built like this It was meant to be a cruise ship It is a nightmare 😂 All concrete so they can't add more elevators, we all overfilled the two until they were overweight to reach the 6th floor where all the classes were

i live in berlin and those building are just looking ugly. Please tear them down and build better houses than those

The video doesn't address the title of the piece at all. And the little chirping noises interspersed on the soundtrack add nothing but annoyance.

There is a lot of Brutalist architecture in Coventry, UK. The City Centre has numerous Brutalist buildings, frequently built right next to Medieval Buildings.

We civil engineers like Brutalist Architecture. It makes the job of doing structural design easy for us.

Looking at portions of that appartment and the check buildings lets me see what brutilism could be if it is given a chance. That is the first time i ever saw brutalist interiors and i love the look of them. I've come up with several ideas for adding many aspects like the interiors to Brutilist exteriors to add some color to them also. I also believe that mixing the brutalist philiosophies with other forms of architect haven't been fully explored and could be amazing. But just from seeing those 2 interiors intregs me on the possibilities.

The people who want to preserve this style are the same ones who will fart and fan the air toward you.

The video editing of this was also brutal.

These buildings will be excellent in a dystopian futuristic sci-fi suspense terror film … They make u feel very uncomfortable, distant and cold; very unique feeling. They seem completely void of life and warmth and yet they have a unique personality of their own.