After the war, there were actually real laws and official regulations here in Germany on how to rebuild the country after it had been bombed. It was not permitted to rebuild it as beautifully as before, and the reason given was that the beautiful, ornate stucco and half-timbered architecture with its many turrets and picturesque archways would only plunge the Germans back into too much love for their homeland, and then Hitler would return, and Hitler must never return, boohoo, so they built everything in this desert-dweller style, angular high-rises without decoration and without stucco, where people feel small and castrated and are not inspired to human greatness. Today's prevailing brutalism in architecture has only one good thing going for it: when the evil banker Jews once again make all the little people bomb each other to smithereens, then the next time it happens, no one will be too sorry to see the ruins.
Brutalist architecture is a crime against nature. There is a point when the design goes beyond just extreme stinginess and into ugliness that is clearly intentional.
After the war, there were actually real laws and official regulations here in Germany on how to rebuild the country after it had been bombed. It was not permitted to rebuild it as beautifully as before, and the reason given was that the beautiful, ornate stucco and half-timbered architecture with its many turrets and picturesque archways would only plunge the Germans back into too much love for their homeland, and then Hitler would return, and Hitler must never return, boohoo, so they built everything in this desert-dweller style, angular high-rises without decoration and without stucco, where people feel small and castrated and are not inspired to human greatness. Today's prevailing brutalism in architecture has only one good thing going for it: when the evil banker Jews once again make all the little people bomb each other to smithereens, then the next time it happens, no one will be too sorry to see the ruins.
Brutalist architecture is a crime against nature. There is a point when the design goes beyond just extreme stinginess and into ugliness that is clearly intentional.