Brutalist architecture. Thoughts?

People are too hard on different types of architecture. There could be thousands of buildings of the same style in the city and just a couple will be brutalist or postmodern and people will freak out about it.

I personally don't care for the concrete look but they stand out enough that it makes them interesting.

wtf im a nazi now

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>>2404950

>>2404950
Hideous. Should be illegal in public spaces.

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I think a lot of it ended up being, ironically, form over function.
Pic related is a nightmare to get to, you end up scurrying across the tarmac dodging buses.
Likewise the South Bank Centre in London is a real pain to find the entrances, too much thought given to aesthetics and not enough to human needs

I love Brutalist architecture. I think it's useful in establishing a modern look without being gaudy or tacky. I also think it has potential in making cities more psychologically friendly to humans by creating surfaces evocative of rock-faces, though this would require pairing it with extensive urban greenery projects.

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eco-brutalism

Modernism was a mistake. At least when it comes to architecture.

>>2404950
anyone who says its good and 'you just don't get it' has never actually spent time near these. You can't imagine how depressive these are to have around.

>>2404950
I think they're pretentious.
The buildings are impractical.
While children and adults freeze to death in the winter, these places are "exclusive" to the snobs.
Yes, I have designed a house in AutoCad. It's designed so children don't have to die on the streets and starve to death. I have honor. I am a Man.

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Honestly the Slovene Brutalist Triplex A/B (1972) garage systems were genius when they were designed in the 1970's and completely blew out any western designs. They manage to cram 60 personal enclosed garage spaces in 3 floors while remaining relatively low-profile.

Their only problem is that cars are much bigger than in the 70's nowadays.

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>>2405737

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>>2405745

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Say what you want about the aesthetics but those things solved a housing crisis and are have proper anti-earthquake foundations and other safety features making them more safe than 90% of all housing blocks built since 1991 which blatantly ignore the safety standards.

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These were based on the same concept, but with a bit more comfort. they've been repainted since and are pretty comfy (I'd know I live next to them).
The complex also starred as the main setting in a classic Slovene movie, Sreča na Vrvici (1977).

https://youtu.be/S5TkbpMaeAA

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>>2405868
They have been repainted since and are /comfy/.

https://youtu.be/A9W9i3QW29Q

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>>2405875
imho one of the main reason why this concrete jungle is livable is because it's right at the edge of the city so it gives on miles of fields.

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>>2404950
>tfw London got JUSTed beyond salvation

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Republic Square (previously Revolution Square) is also great brutalist engineering. The 2 fuckoff huge buildings are the national bank and the National Technical Library. a cultural center is also integrated into the structure but you can't see it from this angle.

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>>2405848
LOL

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>>2404950
Some Eeastern European cities are basically a brutalist Disneyland.

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>>2405900
I don't see many brutalist buildings apart from that pseudo-air tower next to the spiky dildo and the housing buildings at the bottom right.
Brutalism isn't just anything modern.
>>2405917
The square was a parking lot during the 00's until Janković (pbuh) fixed it back.

>>2405900
welcome to the 21st century of Judeo-Nihilism:
everything worth caring about will be pozzed

>>2405900
London is by far the ugliest European big city, even Moscow somehow manages to look better. It's like taking everything wrong about Europe and combining it with everything wrong about America.

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>>2405926
I've been to Bratislava and honestly the Brutalist buildings there work very well because:
a) Brutalism is the main building style in the suburbs so you don't get a horrible hodge podge of styles (unlike London)
b) The buildings are generally pretty well kept (unlike London)
c) Bratislava is a very small (432,801 people - 2 Ljubljanas or a district in London or an avenue in NY) so greenery is always close and you don't feel trapped by the concrete

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Another city that manages to do Brutalism well is Velenje (previously Titovo Velenje). Once again it's a small mining town surrounded by green hills, so people don't die of depression.

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It may not look like it today because of renovations but the entire city was built in the 50's to staff the local mine, power plant and kitchen appliances factory the central committee put there.

>>2405800
So you are saying that the Communist where a bunch of people with no morals? But at the least they followed safety standards?
Or is it pic unrelated?

It's shit. Not enough windows, big ugly blocky things. They need some ways to get natural light in, some decorations, and some character. Anything, cover it in Christmas lights, slap a giant statue on it, add in a bunch of greek pillars that serve no purpose, whatever, just do something, anything, to make it less of a big brown/grey eyesore.

>>2405041
See, I like gaudy and tacky, though. But, then again, I thing Las Vegas has one of the most beautiful streets on Earth (The Strip is amazing, the rest of the actual city where people live is just a large dusty desert city. I really like cities like Vegas, Orlando, and Niagara Falls, where it's like a carnival threw up all over them and you have large pretty but useless buildings like revolving restaurant towers and shit and neon lights everywhere. Neon looks so damn cool.

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Said coal mine and power plant.
The creation of Lake Velenje is one of the most unusual ones: due to the long years of mining activity in the Valley of Šalek, subsidence caused a water flood, which resulted in a series of three lakes: Lake Škale, Lake Družmirje, and Lake Velenje.

>>2406055
I'm sorry I'm not sure I understand what you mean? Yeah they're ugly as sin, but the central government of FSR Slovenia had a serious housing problem in the 50's when a lot of young men came to work to Ljubljana and into the mines of Savska valley and they needed to solve it quickly and with a low budget. Personally I'd prefer living there than in some modern housing block officially designated as a warehouse to cut costs of safety measures (Slovenia is on a very earthquake prone location).

>>2405926
Upside down glass pyramid, glass cube within concrete cube and that round thing bottom row second from the right all look cool as hell. The rest are meh.

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>>2406094
>round thing bottom row second from the right
It's a bridge.

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I'd dump more interesting stuff like the city of Nova Gorica which was built right on the border with the italian city of Gorizia after they refused to give it back. The city was built for no other reason than to spite the wogs (and to resettle the expelled Slovenes of old Gorica), but I can't find any decent pictures.
So I'll just dump some aesthetic brutalist architecture.

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Apparently this has been nicknamed "Sauron's European headquarters"

>>2405868
I swear i thought that was Skopje, ive literally been in a commieblock that looks 90% like this ine.

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Skopje is another city that was build from ground-up in the 50's with brutalist architecture. I never visited so I don't know how pleasant it is.

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>>2406139
quite honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they recycled plan all over the country, the B-7 complex ie Bratoševa Ploščad was built by Marjan Bežan, Braco Mušič, Nives Starc, I wonder if they worked in other places in Yugo as well?

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More Skopje

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>>2406176

>>2406145
It used to be comfy af, now its filled with new styled apartment buildings and dresses in those diagusting kitsch """"""baroque""""""" fascades and kitschy ornaments. If this thrwad is alive ill post pics tomorrow from my pc

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>>2406178

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>>2406182

>>2406167
Most probably, i ha an old book filled with old commie house designs, you just ordered from the book lmao, its the same with the apsrtment buildings probably.

>>2406176

I love the uni, the post office is also sexy as fuck, the rotunda is supposed to be a poppy flower, which is one of our national flowers. (Apparently macedonian poppies make the worlds hiest quality heroin) but we arent afghan so we dont.

>tfw so many styles that won't be used anymore due to $$$

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Posting some from Bulgaria

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>>2408180
That one time the fuckers actually build a building from the top down

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>>2408183
Completed

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>>2404950
The majority of posters who talk about brutalism don't know what brutalism is.
It literally means "raw concrete", and its prime example are what those same people praising it call "commie blocks".

Pic related, the height of brutalism. A big concrete box for tax farm animals to sleep in.

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>>2408185
Some pictures from the heaviest brutalist monument in the world

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>>2408185
>>2408183
What did they build next to it?

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>>2408200

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>>2408202

I find it fascinating in a way. It has this kind of steampunk industrial feel to it.

Shame that people don't appreciate that, they just want all to be pretty and neat. They are systematically tearing down brutalist commie buildings and building glass and steal shopping malls/offices there instead.

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>>2408208
I find it ugly as fuck. It was an architectural movement to destroy tradition and start from scratch. I dislike it greatly.

>>2408201
Some modern looking glass office building, which is just the cherry of the pie in this particular square so now it looks like a fucking Frankenstein plaza featuring 19th century buildings, Brick commie blocks from the 50s, and the said tower

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Communism.
Not even once.

>>2408212
>judging art by the motivation behind it and not by how it looks itself
I adore the monumentality, even with commieblocks.

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>>2408223
I wish i was on my PC and i could show pictures of how capitalists reconstruct old art noveau buildings into modern architecture (pic related)

>>2408223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos

>>2406134

I don't think that is brutalist architecture.

>>2408258
>>2408223
Both capitalists and communists are tasteless subhumans.

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>>2406181
but WE WUZ Alexanderatata n'shit :^)
>>2406192
>i have an old book filled with old commie house designs
Neat, care to post some?
btw is Skopje worth visiting for a Slovene?

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>>2408183
>>2408185
Absolute madmen

Found some photos of Nova Gorica from when it was built. All the fags saying brutalism is oppressive should visit that town, one of the comfiest places in Slovenia.

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>>2408190
Because farms American suburbia is so much better right? You even get a nice life-long debt when you move into your new cloned house.

At least your pic is energy and space efficient, has shops and public services within a 5 minute walk and has more greenery than most suburbias.

>>2408295
It's true, you can't really make out much.

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It can be really cool at the right time of day if it takes advantage of the shadows.

>hey guiz
>keralis here

>>2404950
The most black metal of architectures.

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>>2405481
>Yes, I have designed a house in AutoCad. It's designed so children don't have to die on the streets and starve to death. I have honor. I am a Man.

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>>2408258
Well i got home

Its funny how "modern architecture" is closer to brutalism than anything (with few more colours), yet most of its agenda (at least here in post-commie countries) is to be "not-brutalism"

>>2410229
You are a child. You have a lot of maturing to go if you think lack of housing is a funny thing to poke fun at.

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>>2410244

>>2405481
im so mature xddd if u disagree wit me ur immature IM RIGHT UR RONG ACCEPT MY NORMATIVE STANCE

>>2410246
>I am man
>You are child
Can't argue with that

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>>2410247
Okay thats enough to prove that capitalism is as shit at architecture as commies

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Keating’s fortunes, in the meantime, have soured. Lacking his own creative voice, he is at a loss when the architectural trends he has spent his career emulating cease to be fashionable. Desperate to salvage his career, he begs Roark to design one last building for him: a low-income housing project to be called Cortland Homes. Roark, knowing that the project is under Toohey’s control, and that a plan under his own name would never be accepted, agrees, on the condition that his plan be built precisely as designed.

>>2405737
>be communist
>build awesome garage
>realize you can't use garage because no cars
>if you have a car, it sucks dick because of soviet engineering
>go drink more state subsidised vodka in order to forget misery

>>2406059
>See, I like gaudy and tacky, though.

there's a term for that, it's called 'being a pleb'

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I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

>>2405956
>ARCHITECTURE I DON'T LIKE IS DA JOOOOOOOOOOOZ!!!!!!

Hate to tell you this pal but the father of Brutalism, Le Corbusier, was a christian and some of his most iconic buildings are chapels and monasteries. But then again you lot don't really care much for facts, do you?

>>2410280
Does Ayn Rand know that by fighting that war she'd most likely be supporting the establishment of the state?

>>2410287
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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>>2410280
>Ayn Rand

>>2410309
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

>>2405481
>2017
>Still using AutoCad
get Revit you fucking pauper

>The buildings are impractical.
Actually they're extremely practical considering that they allow large numbers of people to be housed in an extremely small area

>While children and adults freeze to death in the winter, these places are "exclusive" to the snobs.
What did he mean by this?

>have honor. I am a Man.
nah you have a lack of taste and you're a massive pleb

>>2404950

Triggers me hard enough that I bleed from my anus.

Anything thats not French Neoclassicalism does that though.

>>2410297
>>2410311
lmao okay pal

>>2410287
Ayn Rand isn't an ancap. As a matter of fact she's a massive shill for the US government.

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A tiny bit back there was some guy sperging about brutalist architecture, claiming that it looked so bad because it wasn't utilized right. I wish I remember all the different things he discussed, but I only remember that they look like shit in metropolitan areas and look great surrounded by untrimmed trees and wilderness. I guess looking secure and conservative in appearance contrasts nicely against nature that is anything but that?

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>>2410361

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>>2410365
Something like these are good ones, I guess.

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>>2410275
lel
It's true that in many areas too few triplexes were built since in the 70's I'd say only 60% of the population had cars (Yugoslavia manufactured licensed Fiats for it's home market). That's way there's a bit of a parking crisis. We should just build more triplex desu.

>>2410280
>I litteraly worship investment bankers
t. Ayn Rand
I love her because you don't even need to argue with her, she does a very good job of proving how retarded she is by herself.

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>>2410373
Single greatest work of art of the 20th century, imho.
>>2410311
Nice sophism, but reality disagrees.

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>>2410413
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

I don't give a damn about your brother James and his friends. Their theory was not new, it has worked for centuries. But it wasn't foolproof. There is just one point that they overlooked. They thought it was safe to ride on my brain, because they assumed that the goal of my journey was wealth. All their calculations rested on the premise that I wanted to make money. What if I didn't?

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

>>2410442
haha okay the first quote was funny but this is just getting annoying

>>2410448
No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

It was all a dream
I used to read Word Up magazine
Salt'n'Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine
Hangin' pictures on my wall
Every Saturday Rap Attack, Mr. Magic, Marley Marl
I let my tape rock 'til my tape pop
Smokin' weed and bamboo, sippin' on private stock
Way back, when I had the red and black lumberjack
With the hat to match
Remember Rappin' Duke, duh-ha, duh-ha
You never thought that hip hop would take it this far
Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight
Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade
Born sinner, the opposite of a winner
Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner
Peace to Ron G, Brucey B, Kid Capri
Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky
I'm blowin' up like you thought I would
Call the crib, same number same hood
It's all good

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I'll post some Beograd brutalism

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>>2410479

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>>2410481

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>>2410482
>Radenska
SLOVENSKA DOMINACIJA

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>>2410486

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>>2410487

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>>2410491

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>>2410492

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>>2410494

>>2405868
looks like commieblocks in sweden, but its all decayed concrete, so depressing...

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Found some 70's Split brutalism. Quite honestly Split is one of those places where brutalism doesn't really work unfortunately.
https://youtu.be/1wno6sxeQho

>>2410129
>live in a big house
>call it your own
>neighbours house next door
comfy
>live inside of a literal concrete box
>lend it from government
>neighbours fuck behind the wall
atleast it has more "GREENERY"

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>>2410533
>he thinks people in ex-soviet countries don't own their flats
>he can't even imagine a society without parasitic landlords

>>2408212
I don't really like it on churches, since one of the major things about them is to somewhat represent an ark for humanaity and the brutalist style simply doesn't offer that most of the time.

There is something beautiful about its simplicity and patterning outside of that though.

>>2410533
>live in a drafty mcmansion that's 20,000 sq ft but constructed out of balsa and vinyl clapboards
>can't afford real upholstery in all 50 rooms so fake leather and spray-on stucco will have to do
>Garage space is larger than living space
>But don't worry your neighbour's houses are just as bad.
>Quite literally, because all 25,000 homes in your gated community were built from the same design
>pay $1,000,000 for the pleasure
>and even more to repair the damage that a slight gust of wind does to your decorated shed
>2 hour commute to your office box (YES BUT THE BUILDING HAS PILLARS ON THE FRONT SO IT DOESN'T COUNT!!!)
>Drive another two hours to do your shopping (your gated community isn't allowed to have shops because zoning laws)
>Drive SUV (there are only five parking spots in the entire city but if I drove anything else the neighbours would laugh at me!!!)
>never use garden because your entire estate was built in the middle of a desert (but you still pay for your sprinklers anyway otherwise your homeowners association would disapprove)
>oh and about 10 years later someone's going to build a freeway through your neighbourhood once all that fake stucco and plaster peels off and you're left with a field of decaying suburban boxes inhabited by the next generation of workers pushed out of the city by gentrification
>your view is the east wall of your neighbours ComfyView Heights™ SuburbBox™ (oh btw you live about 20m below sea level so have fun when the global warming hits

vs

>Live close to goods, services and work place
>rent for a reasonable price from an authority
>No need for a car, can bike or take public transport (which actually works because you have decent city planning!)
>actually feel as if you're living with other people and not in an empty field
>modern apartment - cosy, stylish, and efficient because someone actually cared about what they were designing
>Your 20th-floor view consists of an entire city bursting with life and activity

>>2410626
>Live in city
>Be a worker bee in a hive

>Live in country
>Be free

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>>2410626
Or!
>live in comfy and well designed large cabin in the woods
>have shed behind house with a vehicle you can drive into a nearby small town with
>have greenhouse to grow most of your own food, and a few chickens and goats
>live off the land, go hiking and hunting
>walk a short while to get to the Maine coast and fish
Truly, The Life. Why do you not dream of living The Life?

>>2410113
Would love to but its gonna be a bitch to find and i domt have a scanner or anythung to post it.

>btw is Skopje worth visiting for a Slovene?

Its worth visiting for anyone because of the girls, i meam fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, i know everyone saya this about their women but god damn ours are the best, just stay away from anyone shorter than 175cm, those are Albanians, i think you would want to come home with your organs in place.

>>2410639
>live in country
>only jobs are farming or convenience store clerk
>depend on state subsidies either way (farming directly, convenience store depends on state funds pumped into Bumfuck Alabama's local economy)
>Spend 18 hours every day shovelling shit or driving tractors
>your farm is bought out for a pittance by McJohnsons for their next McBeefburger factory farm and you're out on the streets with no qualifications

vs

>live in high tech comfort with consistent hours
>earn your own money
>plenty of time off on weekends to enjoy culture at one of many galleries and museums

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>>2410639
>suburbia
>country
what am I reading?
I agree the country is way more comfier than cities, but thinking suburbia is "country" is just laughable.

>>2410697
>Only jobs are farming or convenice store clerk
This actually used to be true for the most part until recently. There's a good number of tech jobs (Not as much as a city, for sure, but still a good amount) in the oil field industry and any nearby factory if that's your thing. In my case though, I write programs for a living, so it didn't matter where I lived, but that's not really a common sort of occurrence for most people.

Still though, the majority of people in a rural area will probably fall in to what you've described since the competition for better jobs is fierce and the pay is lower than cities. But then again the majority of city dwellers work in pretty terrible jobs as well, so I'd rather take my chances.

Also, pretty much every rancher that I know is independent, the main risk of their occupation is not being bought out, but by those with purchasing power simply not offering a lot of profit for meat and animal products. I think farmers have a similar issue, and both have the problem of being very dependent on the fluctuations of not only the value of their goods but the conditions of nature to determine how much they can sell and for what price.

>>2410699
Sorry, rural areas, not suburbia. Was more taking a jab at people fighting over cookie cutter suburbian homes and fancy commieblocks as their living accommodations.

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>>2410685
>tfw almost an Albanian
dodged a bullet here

Unrelated note, but why are brutalist monuments always so aesthetic?

>>2405041

are you the same guy who in the last brutalism debate thread talked about the buildings looking like rock faces and then some bs stuff about psychology?

SPOILER ALERT: concrete does not look like a rock face. Concrete looks like concrete. In fact concrete is almost synonymous with the antonym of nature.

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>tfw you realise architecture debate on /his/ will just be the same 44 posters arguing about the same styles for the rest of eternity

can't wait desu

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>>2410950
I like it desu, it's like a monthly meeting with the lads where you throw shit at each other and call other people plebs.

>Always wanted to live in a concrete house.
>Find there's a whole style of architecture devoted to that style.

That's pretty awesome, and some of the designs are neat looking.

>>2406088
Well wasnt that the purpose of modernism and maybe brutalism as well? To use cheap alternatives that are easy to build and low budget?

>>2405800
Based free stuff. Almost makes me proud to be human seeing a photo of the high water mark of civilization.

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>>2404950
Like all architecture some of it I like some of it I don't

>>2404950
I like Brutalist architecture . Like it's GODLIKE in jungles

>>2404950
post more then vs now pic that gets you butthurt

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>>2404950
Most examples of Brutalism are alien, inhumane abominations that feel like they were specifically designed to make people clinically depressed. There are some examples, however, that are visually-pleasing and completely inoffensive. Usually, factors in making a quality Brutalist building include:
>designing it with an orthodox form
>ditching the atrocious "sad, water-damaged concrete" aesthetic in favor of either painting over said concrete (usually with either greys or browns), or using a different material entirely, such as bricks
>surrounding the building in plant-life (obviously not an architectural feature, but it still makes a well-designed building look even better)

>>2411462
In jungles? You mean like in Brazil? It's probably true because stuff like wood is a pretty shit building material in a rainy, moist environment.

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>>2411583
I like to call the examples of Brutalism in my posts "subdued Brutalism" due to their normal forms and lack of architectural drama.

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>>2411613
Here's a color picture of the same building. I'm not even sure if brick Brutalism technically counts as Brutalism, given the meaning of the name.

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>>2411630
This is another concrete-based example. It's slightly more abstract, (it has this weird tower on its backside that you can't see in this picture) but still a nice-looking building.

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>>2411686
These are some pictures of the same building before it was painted in 2008. It had water stains on it back then, but nothing too bad.

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>>2411716
This one might be my last example. It's a pretty imposing building, but once again, it doesn't have an unorthodox design, it's mostly made of bricks, the concrete sections clearly don't suffer from typical Brutalist-levels of streaking, and it's surrounded by plenty of plant-life.

>>2408298
t. feudalist

>>2410258
Right looks better desu

>>2410626
>He doesn't live in a townhouse in a small city
>He doesn't own a house that is both good quality and reasonably priced to buy
>He doesn't live in an area at just the perfect size to allow for biking, walking, and driving to all be viable.
>He doesn't have a two story house with a comfy view of the street and the surrounding block.
>He doesn't understand the idea of people chilling out with each other on their yards and porches
wew

>>2410361
I'm probably who you're talking about, and I just made like six posts on this particular topic. Since every single architecture thread, for some reason or another, just happens to be immediately overridden by Brutalism or is just about Brutalism to begin with, I always present my own stance on the style. You're probably remembering my points incorrectly by the looks of your post. I never said the style doesn't look good in metropolitan areas; I said it doesn't look good when the building in question is a hulking, alien-looking monolith made entirely of hideous unpainted concrete that's heavily stained by water.
>it looks great surrounded by untrimmed trees and wilderness
That's another misinterpretation. A building needs to first be aesthetically-pleasing before it utilizes plants to COMPLIMENT its appearance and give it life. That's the case with ALL styles of architecture, and especially Brutalism as a result of it being a very straight-edge, unnatural, modern style. The thing with Brutalist buildings, however, is that more often than not they tend to be completely devoid of anything green. I guess that's intentional most of the time, but it just makes them look depressing and unfeeling. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that I never said you could automatically make an ugly building good by putting plants around it. Like I said before, they're just necessities that most buildings need to make them look alive.

>>2412226
No. Distributist.

I'm going to all here because this is the most relevant thread I've seen. Have any of you guys considered getting an architecture degree? Is it even worth it nowadays?

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this one is pretty impressive in person

>>2413334
Looks like red alert 2

>>2405057
Is that what we're calling abandoned Soviet ruins now?

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Why is brutalism so shit
But Art Deco on of the GOAT styles?

They share many similarities

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>>2413403

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Or comfy as fuck Australian federation style
Which was heavily influenced with a nouveau styling

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>>2413413

>>2410275
>half the planet embargoes commies
>mocks them for not having cars

Well I'd have one if you sold it to me. Prick.

>>2405848
And now the Jews are fleeing in mass with the massive influx of Holocaust deniers known as Muslims.
Really churns my gray matter.

>>2405057
>Modernist industrial architecture reverting to the state of nature

Makes me feel warm inside.

>>2411583
>>2411613
>>2411630
>>2411686
Let me guess, you also like your curry mild, wear trainers everywhere and like pop-rock?

>>2413285
Which country senpai, in Central Europe, architects are basically unemployable.

>>2410129
>at least it has more greenery
>posts American suburb with golf course as counter example

>>2404950
Brutalist architecture has only one purpose purpose, which is to be the cheapest possible way of making something. It's utterly devoid of all artistic or aesthetic effort

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>>2414911
What help is a golf course when you only see it while you commute out of your geometrical monstrosity? I have a 24/7 view on fields and forests from my commieblock

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>>2404950
desu brutalist homes are pretty nice. The large office buildings on the other hand can go suck a dead dog's dick.

>>2405900
>each picture is a different season
Well memed

>>2410141
I used to live in Trellick back when it was full of crackheads and drunks, now I hear a millionaire bought the whole top floor.

>>2413413
A fucking toolshed

>>2414877
What were you trying to accomplish with this post?

This thread ia entertaining. Why isn't there an architecture board?

>>2416903
It probably wouldn't attract very much attention.

>>2416903
it would be invaded by /pol/ retards posting tacky neo-baroque stuff

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University Hall ~ University of Illinois @ Chicago

>>2417072
Do you hate baroque?

>>2417304
Looks like cardboard.

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>>2417307
>baroque
We should have a cathedral thread next.

>>2410825
>Unrelated note, but why are brutalist monuments always so aesthetic?

they were designed with becoming naked, pale ruins in mind

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a finnish church

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>>2410247
>>2410244
Fucking disgusting. They just built two huge condo complexes right down the street from my house that look like this.

>>2404950
Brutalism is fine

As long as you don't destroy cultural heritage to potentially replace it with a drab and boring block that will rot and look like chernobyl 5 years later

I like brutalism though, I have some p cool ideas, the very simple and straight-forward construction makes room for interesting ways to think around it

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Who /george/ here?