Esperanto, an artificial language, was devised with high ideals in mind. In the 1880s, its creator LL Zamenhof envisioned the language to be humanity’s universal second language. Although it has not yet reached that status, it remains at least the most widely spoken artificial auxiliary language in the world. One factor complicating its spread is that no language, even those guided by cosmopolitanism, can remain the same for long enough in two different cultures. As with spoken and written language, so with the concrete language of architecture, and in the case of the style known as Brutalism, it literally becomes concrete. After World War II, the building, intended to make humanity whole again, became more unusual and less utopian than its architects had intended.
There are many examples From the new video above constructed storyIt offers the equivalent of a postcard tour of Brutalist (and Brutalist-adjacent) buildings around the world. Named after the main material Beton Brutor made of ready-mixed concrete, this style came into its own during the rebuilding of war-torn areas in cities in Britain and continental Europe, and in the United States during the rapid spread and expansion of university campuses, which had to be done quickly and on a budget that was by no means extravagant.
Libraries, research facilities, city halls, administrative buildings, courthouses, housing projects. These are the kinds of structures that most often took the form of brutalism in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, resulting in organizational, bureaucratic, and in some places totalitarian associations that still exist today.
Some openly disliked Brutalist buildings. tricorn center with portsmouth Third Church of Christ, Scientist Buildings in Washington, D.C., are often demolished after decades of negligent maintenance. In addition, the following Barbican Estate London? Habitat 67 Montreal is now a beloved place of pilgrimage. Le Corbusier is widely regarded as the master of brutalism. Unite d’Habitation Marseille (not Berlin, contrary to the video caption) and Kenzo Tange (pronounced “”)tan gay,” do not have “Tang(says the narrator), his work took the Japanese version of the movement in its own subtle and sometimes playful direction. Now, thanks to the rapid proliferation of architectural photography made possible by social media, new lovers of brutalism seem to be born every minute. Even if they do not believe that architecture can create new worlds, they feel the appeal of a future that is yet to come, or at least not yet.
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