brutalist for a house is great. but i dont care to see them Europe.

@Pandas Panda Pan Das I like it to some degree

Most of them are just ugly authoritarian blocks...but then again there are some beautiful exceptions

@Pandas Panda Pan Das i love them

And what's funny is that they also use brutalist architecture to depict modernism in the context of the 70s lol it gives it that kind of eerie vibe... or I just got that from the movie High Rise 🤣

But how do you choose which ones are historic ones and which not?

The interesting and complex shapes that Brutalist buildings can take still doesn't make them GOOD, and that's the issue. Brutalism is basically a form of modern art... Like modern art, it is the visualization of anti-social personality disorder. It is soulless, ugly, uncomfortable, intimidating, imposed and imposing, anti-aesthetic. But unlike modern art, you can't hide it. You can put modern art in a gallery where only people who want to see it have to. Brutalist buildings are out there were real people have to live and work. Putting ugly, anti-social art where people have to actually live is criminal.

people associate brutalist buildings with bunkers because they haven't grown up or at least lived a period of their life in that kind of an environment. I can tell you that these buildings give you a feeling ... i cant describe it but its different for everyone, feeling of a special kind of beauty (and aesthetic also, ofcourse xD) they have an eary vibe to them in a beautiful way, they feel futuristic but in a cyberpunk dystopia kind of way (people that have watched Akira, Bladerunner, ghost in the shell and similar movies will understand me)

@@markopetrushev3084 I grew up going to schools designed in the brutalist style. It felt like going to a prison every day. By the time I got to high school, the schools were built with more color, more natural light and aesthetics. I felt better. Everyone conducted themselves better. It didn't feel like you were being punished just going there.

dont need art for buildings as long as preforms the function is stable and use few resources that is ideal.

Whenever I look at this stlye I feel sad and hopeless, also angry sometimes.

No it doesnt. Its futurist. I love the style. There are some brutalist buildings that do look very depressing, but those are just bad examples

​@@rederickfroders1978 so around 75 % are bad examples...

Unde BOSS?

Yeah, Belgrade is also brutalist city, some parts are not, but some parts are high brutalist.

This brutalist stuff destroys the beautiful views of the Romanian cityscapes you'd have. I hate it personally, there are so many beautiful buildings in Romania but these ugly concrete Monsters make them all look small and unimportant. Not really respectful towards own culture...

Yes - they really do so.

A gray sky is rekaxing yet so is a green Lust forest of trees pine trees bamboo or any trees in general a brutalist building intimidates more and were used by governments who used intimidatiom every day these buildings aren't relaxing

So basically you’re autistic?

So I’m supposed to believe that you would be ok with building in a traditional style if the architecture was functional? 75% prefers anything but modernism, you should just face that your fanatical ideology and all it’s creations wont be restored now that the shitty concrete falls apart

Maybe if the purpose of these concrete monsters is to squash any serenity and joy you can find in the building, they should not have been built. My engineering faculty was inside a head-ache inducing brutalist building. I absolutely hated spending time and working there.

So do you have this specific taste?

If well done they look nice on a sunny day and looked at from afar. But close by and/or under a cloudy sky they are ugly and depressing. Architects should not try to be sculptors, they should make building that are pleasant to use and look at. Brutalism fails at this.

@@dweuromaxx my personal favorite architecture is neoclassical, brutalist looks dystopian to me. Sorry for any spelling errors.

Well you See this is the reason there being demolished there depressing intimidating and not because of greatness

@@Bruh-hq1hx Well, that depends on people's mindsets. They associate it with poverty and criminal because a lot of buildings in poor neighborhoods were designed this way, but I don't see why dislike a style just because of the criminal/depressed mood in poor neighborhoods. If someone decides to build a house and wants to try something different, why not brutalism? It's all in the head, there's nothing wrong with this style, it's just a simple and cheap solution, that's why it was used so much in "depressed" neighborhoods - the poverty is the issue here, not architectural style.

@@ElectronPower I too like brutalism for the same reasons. People who usually trash brutalism mistake style for beauty. They are not the same. Beauty however can be how one interprets style. All in the hand of the artist.

@@reglikesbutts5925 This is ugly !

​@@ElectronPowerthe stupidity in people ...lack of ideas, uncreative, closed minded ...and illogical way of thinking ...why align the building with people? That's stupid

The monotonous rectangular ones with identical balconies lining every wall are genuinely hideous. But there are so many amazing brutalist buildings that should be saved and cherished. I would love to live in or near a good brutalist building. Or better yet, and entire neighborhood of well-designed, interesting brutalist buildings!

J Lord good for you 👍🏽🤷🏽‍♂️

Cheap is not a quality here as it is only the cost to build and doesn't affect the future. The truth is, brutalist building are made of cement, and cement ages horribly, it ends up depressing. Old buildings seem younger than new ones because they're made out of stone.

its good for a house but not for huge buildings.

The shapes of Brutalism can be great but the "naked material" is very... cold and lifeless. The only "charm" I associate with is that dystopian movies. Cover those shapes with color and more natural(?) materials like wood, stone or adobe, and you have a much more pleasant building.

I'd rather have Netflix and chill with epstein than live within a 100km radius of a brutalist building.

As a native Bostonian, I'll agree to disagree regarding our City Hall.

@Connor Thompson A lot of people complained Boston City Hall was outbof character with the older structures in the area, but the design and the open plaza were created to allow clear views of the surrounding areas. I think it's quite successful, in that regard. The plaza is quite cold and windswept in the winter.

@Jake Dee Even if there are certain similarities due to the construction method, they are not attributed to the Brutalist style. There is an interesting website about the Humboldthain Flak Tower: www.berliner-unterwelten.de/verein/projekte/flakturm-humboldthain/geschichte.html (german)

@@dweuromaxx Thank you very much for that information. I hope I can see this in person some day.

My first reaction to these building was that it looked like the architecture of fascism.

Maybe your childhood was awful and you associated it with the building

@@hellofellas5661 Most people associate it with shit Regimes like the soviets and the Nazis (look at their Plans for Berlin) there was no real happiness for the average person no freedom you couldnt even make your own house that looks like you want you have to live in the repeated all same blocks of buildings

@@berspective1 welk it would have become

Yep, indeed the museum people did a good job there!

Nonsense. It is my favorite architectural style and I'm building my own home to be as brutalist as possible. Besides that, I find High Victorian style to be stuffy and emotionally repressive, but I admit that there is merit to it. It's the same deal with Brutalism for most people.

Brutalism is my favourite. Art Deco and gothic architecture is a crime.

It's not arrogance. It is having a "taste".

I have lived, worked and studied in brutalist buildings and absolutely love it. Form follows function, and the function is determined by the people who use it. Modernism makes this its mission, and where it has failed at this it fails on its own terms - it's a design flaw not a flaw in the philosophy behind it or overall aesthetic. Traditional houses, broken up into small rooms with a single function do not put the needs of people first, for example - they are an anachronism of a time when heat insulation was much more primitive.

Modernism in art and architecture is essentially anti-social personality disorder given physical shape. It is deliberately dehumanizing, authoritarian, and totalitarian, reflecting the modernist view of society. They claim that "form follows function", but the question is "who's function?" It's not human function. It's not environmental function. It's not economic function. You mention heating and homes... Smaller rooms are more energy efficient and therefore cheaper, which is more egalitarian. The function of a Brutalist, modernist building is to be dehumanizing, authoritarian, and totalitarian. The form follows that. The most important and necessary part of any building is the ornamentation, the things that make it beautiful, because the first and most important function of any building is a place for human beings to live and work in.

@@CoryTheRaven No it is NOT energy efficient - it was only energy efficient in the context of poorly insulated homes. You obviously have little to know knowledge about the things you're talking about, and seem to have an agenda warping your opinions. Modernism in architecture is so broad, that to dismiss it in the way you just have speaks of phenomenal ignorance. Modernism on a small, human scale continues to influence the best and most humanistic practices in architecture. How could ornamentation possibly be more important than maximising light, or arranging spaces in accordance with its residents' preferred lifestyle?

@@jlord9638 That's fine, but art deco is also a form of modernism.

I can walk all around my neighbourhood and see these huge infills with massive two-story living/dining/foyer/entertainment spaces with floor to ceiling windows, and there is a definite correlation between wealth and being able to have and heat a house like that. You're just wrong dude, sorry. You're also wrong about space allocation. Those large two-story all-purpose rooms are not only inefficient for heat (except maybe the summer, when you have heat constant pouring in through them) but also inefficient for use. For example, there is an entire row of condos that were just built down the street from me where the entire first floor is an open concept kitchen with couches in it. Great if you life goal is to entertain, but not if you want to use it for anything else. I could never be in the market to buy or rent a house like that, because I can't afford the luxury of an entire floor dedicated to cocktail parties. There's even a house for sale in my neighbourhood I've had an eye on that has a beautiful Craftsman exterior (in accordance with the historic archiecture of the neighbourhood) but an open modernist interior. Even if I could afford it, I'd have to spend another fortune fixing the terrible waste of space and non-Euclidean corners, putting up walls and partitioning the space into something usable for normal people who need to actually live there. The entire first floor doesn't have a single full wall that could be used to prop up a bookshelf. Boxes with large open spaces are affectations of the wealthy who can afford to be wasteful. Also, don't you dare try to say that people who hate ugly architecture are just driven by an agenda. Pot, kettle, black. It's impossible to love ugly architecture for its own merits, because it doesn't have any. You love it because you claim it's "humanist." I hate it because, by being ugly, it is inhumane. Being humane is more important than being humanist. That's why ornamentation, which is to say being beautiful, is more important.

bro, thats even a little bit much for me. I love the exterior looks, but the interior brutalism makes me poo my pants.

youre absolutely right. one of the big problems with alot of uk brutalist buildings is that they didnt properly take into account the british weather vs french and also lack of maintenance is a big problem with most brutalist buildings!

Is a our style , and who made it...not the condition is in....smh...people are closed minded , and don't like building cuz of the condition..... But if not creative , seek knowledge , open minded....we go beyond the horizon and creativity thinking.....

​@@aitor.onlineIs the condition , people don't think beyond the horizon ...

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I see Brutalism as almost comforting, in a weird way. The cold concrete, tight spaces and lack of natural light: it's almost cave-like. It just feels homely.

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Monstrously beautiful yes

That is right. How many of this buildings were houses of poor people, their homes, their roof? And now torn them down. They are ugly but cheap, with nice quality, and for homeless people even brutalism apartment buildings would be perfect. People only like what is beautifull no matter how bad, how experience, how weak is it they just want to say: Woooooooow this is gorgeous and sweet tinny sh**. I am sick of Capitalism, rasist and retarded American life style. Finally someone with normal comment.

Schön! :-)

For me it was hate at first sight, still hate it today!

I love them a lot! The city where I live is small and with a history of the working-class people, so we don't have interesting architecture. The capital, however, is full of interesting things to look at, but of all of them, the rare brutalist buildings are the most eye-catching ones, bar to none! Brutalism can be beautiful and stands out from all other architecture, and I love it dearly.

@Saintpatrick76 Did you know, that the 2000 year old Roman Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome? 😲

I saw the Vienna flak towers for the first time in 2018. Absolutely terrifying . . . like something out of a nightmare, and basically impossible to tear down.

exactly. NYC could really use another building with a glass exterior, am i right?

People don't understand nothing ...close minded people,lack creativity and ideas... understand pyschology....not everyone thinks or have the mindset

No brutalism exists because everything was destroyed after the World wars so buildings were needed Quick and since brutalist buildings only work in cities only using brutalist architecture i don't think it is a good idea

Nonsense. It is my favorite architectural style and I'm building my own home to be as brutalist as possible. Besides that, I find High Victorian style to be stuffy and emotionally repressive, but I admit that there is merit to it. Same deal with Brutalism. People MUST realize that it has merit.

Not sure, but it's undeniable that people who want to destroy certain types of art have a certain personality. ;)

Sure...?

i'd love to live in a brutalist home. also, i certainly don't live in a skyscraper yet i still wish for them to exist.

@@dweuromaxx All brutalist buildings (except a few that we keep for history and a warning for the future) should die.

lmao as if everyone can just find a perfect brutalist house in their area. i know if i saw one for sale in my area id buy it

@Mona Duran The reason that this architectural trend is so polarizing is certainly also due to the unfortunate choice of the term, which originally comes from the French *Beton Brut* and actually means nothing other than *exposed concrete*.

hollywood made brutalist buildings look scary tho!! don't you understand?? hahahah

Beautiful indeed

You must lack taste, I guess you also enjoy David Guettas music?

@@rederickfroders1978 : So anybody who does not share your masochistic love for these oppressing and depressing buildings has no taste? P.S. Never heard of David Guetta before.

It also reminds of brutal dictators

its only cool in places with zero culture. i want to live in one. Because i dont live in Europe. in Europe this should be called monsters, slay some of it.

@Aroxar look at how Berlin would have become germania all except the Führers palace would habe been grey with no personality nor happiness in them only bleakness

We would rather not turn our cities in the equivalent of hitlers world capital germania

I don't know how accurate that is. The Nazi aesthetic was a kind of Neo-Classical art deco kitsch.

so who's going to tell this guy that the main proponent of Brutalism was the USSR?

Interesting point of view. Brutalism is certainly popular within young, cool people 🤪

and hollywood movies using the large structure as some kind of menacing force

you felt like you were in prison at temply university because temple is in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia is a prison and nobody told the people there that there are better places to live

Absolutely terrible opinion.

@TagusMan You refer to the so-called "Plan Voisin" by Corbusier. Well, his real motivation was not to destroy something because he didn't like it, but to create something radically new. Didn't work out after all..

Maybe you could give us an example....

@@dweuromaxx yes, of course, revistacodigo.com/arquitectura/arquitectura-brutalista-en-mexico-modernidad-y-concreto/

here a few more mxcity.mx/2019/02/brutalismo-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico-10-formidables-edificios/