Honolulu has a bunch of brutalism, along with a bunch of other architectural movements
homes@piefed.world 3 days ago
This architectural style is called, no kidding, Soviet Brutalism, and was the primary architectural style featured in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1980s.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So, no, it’s not anything political. It’s a cultural thing.
Soviet housing either followed or was contemporary with Le Corbusier’s ideas of affordable ‘habitation units’, the now-famous cookie-cutter blocks with minimal decoration. The OOP is quite correct in calling it leftist, since the purpose was to have lots of cheap housing: the USSR had huge expansion of it during the fifties-seventies, with massive migration from rural areas to cities (following the less-neat redistribution of housing, wooden barracks, and communal living in the thirties).
Can’t say I like the outcome too much, because arguably same population density can be achieved with lower-rising houses, since they don’t require huge areas between them to have any sunlight. Khrushchev-era districts can be much cozier than later ones, since five-storey buildings are placed closer and have trees right outside the windows.
homes@piefed.world 2 days ago
As was aptly, stated by another commenter here:
It’s also not left wing architecture. It’s the cross roads of a left wing housing initiative, and a right wing refusal to spend money on the public good. What you get is something akin to unsecured prison architecture.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Soviet right wing refused to spend money on the public good when building millions of buildings across the country? What in the hell are you talking about?
homes@piefed.world 2 days ago
I already gave a lesson and architectural styles. I don’t feel particularly obligated to educate you in Soviet history.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Love me some brutalism.
sem@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I would say “socialist modernism”, not " soviet brutalism". Because there are a lot of examples not from ex USSR.
This is Belgrade, Setbia (ex-Yugoslavia):
Museum of Modern Arts: Image
Hotel “Yugoslavija”: Image
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You should check the link I posted. Honolulu has a crapton of brutalism, so I wouldn’t associate it necessarily with any political movement.
I think where brutalism exists now is more a function of when an area was being developed, and it just happens that those areas understand substantial development while brutalism was en vogue (late 50’s - late 1970s).