Re:Yugoslavia's thrilling brutalist architecture
by hawkweed on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:49AM
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@LeanderK I have facionation with sci-fi / cyber punk movies, but would I like to live in such world? I'm so sure about that.
It's same with the eastern bloc architecture. I'm guessing that you don't live in one of those countries. Believe me it's not that fun at all.
Here is one interesting instagram channel with hand drawings of Belgrade architecture: https://www.instagram.com/brutalizam_i_renesansa/
Re:Yugoslavia's thrilling brutalist architecture
by keiferski on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:41AM
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Not the OP but I’m an American guy that has been living in ex-Communist countries (Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Etc.) for a few years. I don’t mind the brutalist stuff - it beats mindless suburban America any day.
Re:Yugoslavia's thrilling brutalist architecture
by souprock on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:31PM
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Here is one that I think is a prime example:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olsen_Hall.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42803091@N07/5577837230
A search for it by name will show many more pictures. It's from 1974. It is really all thick concrete, inside and out. It used to feature brutalist landscaping consisting of mostly-dead grass, but that has obviously changed.
Re:Yugoslavia's thrilling brutalist architecture
by TomMarius on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:14AM
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I learned to like it by making fun of it.
> like a broken promise of a future straight out of comic-books.
Yeah, especially the spomeniks[1] in former Yugoslavia look exactly like that.
Re:Yugoslavia's thrilling brutalist architecture
by olcor on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:45PM
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Brutalist architecture, by itself is fine (example all of the UCSD campus). But when architects decide to put a brutalist building right in the middle of a city where the rest of the architecture is not Brutalist is when it rankles (example Boston City Hall).
It's a bit the architecture of the 60s in general, universally hated in germany. But I find the optimism and futurism very interesting. The often neglected facades have something tragic, like a broken promise of a future straight out of comic-books.
There are definitily bad examples, but I define them by being boring, not brutalist. I think it's an interesting expression of a epoch that's worth preserving and also complements the architecture of the city. Of course, you don't have to preserve everything.
I think the difference is that I don't think a building has to be good or pleasant looking for me to like it (not that there are not example of good/pleasant looking brutalist buildings!).