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Critics matter little to me. Common people and average people’s opinion matter.

dystopian and authoritarian blahhhh booo

Beautiful video, enjoyed the thought provoking narration and am awestruck in the art that is architecture. Thank you for making these types of media for the world to enjoy.

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Brilliant video. Congrats. First time ever I watch a video on architecture and it is captivating.

If Brutalism embodies the socialist utopia, then the socialist utopia is a hard, brittle, soulless nightmare. No thanks!

Easy sub. I am fascinated by architecture, yet somehow I never thought to look it up on You tube. Great narration and visuals.

Brutalism is dystopia

I'm no architect in real life but I do enjoy games that have lots of building and I also write fiction. This was great, thank you! It's definitely given me some ideas for both

Did Brits 'clamour' to live in the new Brutalist social housing in the 50s and 60s? They were moved, often by force from slums or existing neighbourhoods, and the flat blocks were built to replace them. Popularity was largely with the local governments and designers... with a hopeful outlook to 'better' working class areas and people.

Socialism. Evil as a political ideology. Evil as an architectural style.

There’s a risk of associating every raw concrete and modern building as brutalist. Forgiving me the Wittgenstein error of giving a precise interpretation for an abstract word, I freely associate the term brutalism with buildings that have few exterior openings or are massive and weighty, even when trying to pose as gravity defiers, they have a heavy complexion. I’m reluctant to accept Louis Kahn as a brutalist for his buildings are too elegant. I would pick Russian brutalist architecture as role model.

I went to the University of East Anglia and I adored the brutalist architecture.

Rudolf Steiner's second Goetheanum is some kind of brutalism, but usually called expressionism. Naming falls short.

doing a presentation about brutalism next week. this is a great starting point for my research. most documentaties have focused on what to do with existing structures rather then its idea history. thanky you alot

It's BETON BRUT in correct French, not brute.

recently watched a video abot the RenCen, in thirty minutes it showed maybe three ot four people, it's a forbidding inhuman space

Take GM's money and keep the skyline. Future generations will be better for the architectural history. Also GM Chevy is spending money at EPCOT so you might as well get some for the OG.

These buildings look so cool, but I would never live in one. They would serve as a nice background for a scifi-horror movie tho. 🤔

Brutalism is a controversy. It keeps from ornaments and refined material to cherish socialism, and yet it demands mastery in design which in very costly. In all I love it. Fine art and equity, I love them to the bone.

Brutalism is deliberately ugly architecture designed by ugly people who foist off their deliberate ugliness on the rest of us to ruin beauty.

As a resident of the detroit area, the ren cen was a complete failure. At no time was the ren cen ever near 100% occupancy. It was never close. Terrible sight lines and a confusing layout ment stores were nearly impossible to find. Plus, parking was a pain. And other developments in the burbs had better amenities. Plus, much of the concrete was left exposed on the interior. This made the building seem unfinished. Why spend top dollar to move into an office building that was less than attractive? And the building was constructed with out modern amenities. Those great meeting nooks? They had no power for phone charging or laptop use and because they were concrete, it would cost a fortune to upgrade them. Then on top of that, the area to the east was never developed until recently. For most of the ren cens life looking out the windows east you would see an endless row of rotting warehouse buildings.

Personally I've had a life-long affection for Brutalism, and have spent time working in buildings mentioned in the La Jolla CA area, which never became old. Every day was an inspiration. Wonderful vid, thanks.

We used to call them "planet of the Apes" architecture. Boston Government Center is an example of this nightmare

Insightful video. Hope this channel gets more views

Let Detroit be the lesson that you can not spark a Renaissance. It has to be organic and grown from the ground up. Greetings from the Motor Shitty.

Best to start where folk are familiar - with some famous buildings. Do you guys ever do any "how to present" courses????

A college I attended in Florida has brutalist architecture. Fond memories.

Tear it down! I’ve disliked the Ren Cen for years and as a Detroiter myself, it’s simply ugly. The comment that it doesn’t resemble the rest of downtown Detroit buildings at all is so true. It’s just a Goliath eyesore. Detroit deserves better. Much better!

Note that these are almost always building built by public funds. No one who actually has to spend their own money builds these things, it is always someone who can use the taxpayers money to inflict their vision of what things should be like on other people.

Babbdi is the best brutalist town I've ever seen... It's as brutal and gritty as it gets - the pock marks and holes in the concrete and low light in the towers people USED to reside in... It gives that backrooms feel

....this define pretty well the structural desing of every emerging city towns of progress by wars by contrast of "brutal buildings" encaising concrete to acomodate comfortly "rule, order, obidience" under the "Tirany" of the "watch" "eye".....

I went to a brutalist campus and it was depressing to look at, ugly, an eyesore. They should stop building such things. Bring back beauty in architecture.

The essence of disturbing liminal spaces

The worst style of architecture ever invented. Living in a giant impersonal concrete slab is meant to be depressing and demoralizing. It's all about social control.

Thanks for this. I'm a native of Detroit's Canadian neighbour, Windsor. I was a boy when the '67 riots took place and was a teenager as the Rennaissance Centre was built. I remember all the high hopes there were for it renewing the city, but it's sad it didn't have the desired effect. I've been away from the area for many years now, but I've always maintained an interest in Detroit. I'm sorry to hear the RenCen's future is in doubt, but I'm happy to see how Detroit is finding a new lease on life in other parts of the city, especially the rebirth of the Michigan Central Station

I actually like some of it, The James A. Michener Library @ the University of Northern Colorado for one is quite elegant, in it's own way.

I remember the first weekend the bar/restaurant opened. A few buddies and I went down, ordered a couple drinks just to mark our spot I suppose, and I never went back. But I can always say I was there when. Can't say whether or not I'll be around for the tear down. If it does happen, let's hope the demolition team has better luck with their blasting caps than the crew that botched the great Silverdome explosion.

I absolutely hated visiting this building. Potential, yeah, if it were designed differently. Those atriums are a maze, the stores are creepy and empty, the whole place feels disconnected and without true form or flow.

the fact that common people 'don't get the symbolism' is a bit wide of the mark. if an artistic object is loved, the people might look deeper into the symbolism. otherwise, to hell with it.

The design is terrible especially the redundant 3rd and 4th office towers that blocks the view of the river. Office workers don’t need a view

Empirialistic , in-organic institution style architecture designed to keep those inside from escaping or the outside from coming in, including natural light and nature. Depressing architecture that will be a thing of the past.

Just plain & ugly to me. Abrupt & hostile. Dystopian & So uninspiring.

Interesting statement near the end, about ideology, that it shouldn’t get in the way of making a welcoming space for people. Ideology tends to hate people rather than welcome them. They get in the way of the perfection which ideology seeks.

Bostonians have a very close relationship with the City Hall. We both love and hate the building. And the proof is that when non Bostonians speak negatively of the City Hall we take it personally. She's our baby. She's like family, and when Bostonians meet in other parts of the world and the subject of the City Hall comes up it is always met with immediate warmth and affection. Bostonians will say "yeah I hat that building," but it is said with affection.

Who’s utopia tho?

But, I thought Detroit was coming back. It was in all the newspapers.

so if we're all being so honest, I admit it. I find brutalist buildings BORING!

Thank you, I’ve been wanting to hear the story behind these buildings.

The BEST thing that has happened to the Ren Cen is THE DETROIT RIVERWALK! Daddy ALWAYS SAID THAT IT COULD BE BEAUTIFUL!