Brutalism has one redeeming feature: It is durable. If you like brutalism for its overkill in structural durability, that's perfectly reasonable. A bird can shatter a glass wall flying into it, but a nice yard-thick cement one?

An additional plus to brutalism is it is extremely simple and straightforward. Every design is "box", except the REALLY creative ones, which is "cylinder". That makes it much harder to screw up and turn into a ticking deathtrap when postmodernist intersectional studies majors get hired as architects because we live in hell. They are postmodernists, they can make only pain, failure, and despair, so diverting their output into entirely "despair" can possibly spare the pain and failure aspects.

The Wall is a bit of a combination modernist-brutalism mix. It's all exposed metal and cylinders, and can look perfectly impressive, for its purpose in demoralizing those who'd attempt to cross it, intimidate those near it, and fuel despair in those around it.

Brutalism has one redeeming feature: It is durable. If you like brutalism for its overkill in structural durability, that's perfectly reasonable. A bird can shatter a glass wall flying into it, but a nice yard-thick cement one?

An additional plus to brutalism is it is extremely simple and straightforward. Every design is "box", except the REALLY creative ones, which is "cylinder". That makes it much harder to screw up and turn into a living deathtrap when postmodernist intersectional studies majors get hired as architects because we live in hell. They are postmodernists, they can make only pain, failure, and despair, so diverting their output into entirely "despair" can possibly spare the pain and failure aspects.

The Wall is a bit of a combination modernist-brutalism mix. It's all exposed metal and cylinders, and can look perfectly impressive, for its purpose in demoralizing those who'd attempt to cross it, intimidate those near it, and fuel despair in those around it.