<story><title>Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health</title><url>https://www.architecturaluprising.com/studies/why-ugly-architecture-is-bad-for-your-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&amp;gt; Brutalism was no accident.&lt;p&gt;Care to expand on that?  If it was on purpose, &lt;i&gt;whose&lt;/i&gt; purpose, and &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt;?</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>Brutalism was no accident.&lt;p&gt;I think cars, and almost everything related to them, are waaaay worse than ugly buildings for our physical and mental health but I am afraid I&amp;#x27;ll die alone on this hill. The vast majority would kill for a parking spot, let alone giving up their smelly, loud chunk of metal</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tanoc</author><text>Brutalism was designed to expose the functionality of the way everything was built. We&amp;#x27;d been using Portland cement for a few decades at that point, but we always hid it behind facades meant to harken back to traditional architectural functions. Covering Portland cement in brickwork or arranged timber was a common way of doing that. By exposing the underlying core of the building Brutalism was meant to display that transparency would only be allowed so far as to show what a monolith the power structure who used it actually was. Brutalist architecture has few glass openings, vertically massive internal atriums, large thick columns, interior or exterior walls rising at harsh unnatural angles, and consecutive terracing without bracing, all unachievable with traditional building methods or in then-contemporary Mid-Century Modernist architecture. All of this was only possible due to the strong central structure, representative of the aforementioned &amp;quot;monolith&amp;quot; of power.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health</title><url>https://www.architecturaluprising.com/studies/why-ugly-architecture-is-bad-for-your-health/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AnimalMuppet</author><text>&amp;gt; Brutalism was no accident.&lt;p&gt;Care to expand on that?  If it was on purpose, &lt;i&gt;whose&lt;/i&gt; purpose, and &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt;?</text></item><item><author>beebeepka</author><text>Brutalism was no accident.&lt;p&gt;I think cars, and almost everything related to them, are waaaay worse than ugly buildings for our physical and mental health but I am afraid I&amp;#x27;ll die alone on this hill. The vast majority would kill for a parking spot, let alone giving up their smelly, loud chunk of metal</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghaff</author><text>Well it was deliberately created and sold by a specific architecture school. Not all brutalist is bad though.</text></comment>