Sunday 27 December 2020

The renovation of a gorgeous brutalist house in Brazil

Photo by Edgard Cesar of brutalist building in Brasília

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