[MLR]

It's an odd thing, brutalism is almost universally hated by the general public but there's a seemingly endless stream of people who are willing to wax lyrical about why stained concrete blocks are actually the pinnacle of architecture.

[eigenspace]

It sometimes feels like a psy-op to read through all these gushingly positive comments, when you know how the average person feels about it.

I get that it's not actually something nefarious, but it really does suck that the people who like this garbage are so loud about it that it gets shoved down the rest of the public's throats.

I think the extremely public, visible, every-dat nature of architecture gives it certainly responsibilities that are different from other visual art forms.

The modern trend of trying to make art that's repulsive to people with "common", "uneducated" sensibilities is one thing when it's constrained to the inside of a museum, but it's awful when it takes up this much space in public.

[cbeach]

> It sometimes feels like a psy-op to read through all these gushingly positive comments, when you know how the average person feels about it.

Yes, exactly!

A common theme among these weird ideological group-thinks is political undertones.

> "Today, criticism on brutalism and modernism is mostly voiced by those on the far-right side of the political spectrum, precisely because of the association between modernism and the post-war welfare state"

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/10/21/brutalist-buildings-right-...

Yup - if you don't like Soviet-style dense urban monoliths, you're "far right" apparently.