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Why brutalist buildings should stay, even if people think they're ugly
By Kaity Kline Monday, August 12, 2024 • 12:15 PM EDT If you’ve seen a large building made entirely out of concrete built sometime between the 1950s and 1970s, you’ve probably seen the style of architecture known as brutalism. People have a lot of feelings about these buildings.
Just a concrete slab stuck in the middle of a city.” And Devon Akmon, a 48-year-old from Ann Arbor Michigan said it looks like “a mass of stone and glass without much architectural detail.” I think it was a popular style in that time because there was this need to really rapidly scale up the amount of office space for the federal government,” said Person. She says, one of the pioneers of brutalism, Le Corbusier, coined the term beton brut, which roughly translates to raw concrete.
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