Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture

Re:Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture by martijn_himself on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @07:54AM (#11019124)

The Brutalist style is strangely beautiful when integrated with Classical architecture (see, for example, the Ulster Museum).

It is however just a shell and the spaces inside should be bright, inviting, functional and a joy to live in- that's what I find most important about architecture (and I am just a layman).

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Re:Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture by notahacker on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @08:30AM (#11019290)

It's a matter of personal taste. I'd say the brutalist style is at its worst when juxtaposed with more traditional styles, and at its best when completely alone in the landscape where its unusual proportions are less jarring, and the bare concrete looks earthy rather than dirty

At least the Ulster Museum architect - whose creation looks like it's in the process of devouring the older building - seems to have had a sense of humour.

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Re:Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture by guard-of-terra on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @11:38AM (#11020477)

If you get to be alone in the landscape, it means the landscape is unwalkable, which is no go.

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