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The inner balcony at the back of the apartment was caked with about 3" of pigeon shit.
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You could not access the courtyard, it was dark and dingy. It was a concrete slab with an huge central courtyard, like a prison yard. I spent almost a year living in a brutalist building in Prague. So designers learned to love and celebrate concrete. Architecture school is very good at brainwashing students who entered due to love of classical aesthetics into embracing modern aethetics, because there just aren't much opportunites to build outside of dominant building systems of the era. I do think many architects did delude / post rationalize concrete aesthetics to a degree, in no small response to fact that they had to work with it out of economic neccessity. Of course modernism since inception has been a friction point between academia and popular sentiment. The style itself was continuation of modernism. IMO applying dystopian to Brutalism is an label applied after the fact due to various cultural factors. Ergo cladding eventually replaced by cheap light weight building envelop systems due to increase in global trade and sourcing from Asia.
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Which is building science in a nutshell, do what makes most economic sense at the time. It became self reinforcing with economies of scale as concrete supply chains popped up regionally. Building form work out of wood and pouring concrete from local aggregate was cheaper in terms of labour, materials and logistics. There wasn't sufficient industrial capacity for steel + glass post war to address scale of ongoing construction demands.