![Photo by Edgard Cesar of brutalist building in BrasÃlia](https://i1.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/brazil-house.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&ssl=1)
I went to college at the University of Toronto, which saw a ton of growth in the 1950s and 60s, when brutalist architecture was a big deal — so the campus was filled with utterly charmless, blocky concrete structures. Generally I found the aesthetic pretty depressing. — Read the rest