Kerwa wrote:Essentially though, his defense of brutalism was that it was done on pragmatic grounds and the buildings were built to fulfill instant needs - car parks,shopping centers, bus stations etc. - and not as works of art. In that sense they are understandable.
Another interesting part of the hate around brutalism - how it's become a catch-all descriptor for any building that is made out of concrete, including ones like parkades that literally did not involve any architectural design whatsoever, and are pure acts of often-private engineering