Brutalist architecture, a style that was “popularised in a 1955 essay by architectural critic Reyner Banha, who also associated the movement with the French phrases béton brut (“raw concrete”) and art brut (“raw art”)” (per wikipedia) was often discussed and debated during my days in architecture school.
The style was often used for institutional buildings and was often considered appropriate for “disaster bunkers or penal architecture”. (Bloomberg “how to save Brutalism from the wrecking ball”)
A current exhibit at the National Building Museum “Capital Brutalism explores the history, current state, and future of seven polarizing buildings and the WMATA Metro system in Washington, D.C.”
https://www.nbm.org/exhibition/capital-brutalism/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-06/how-to-fix-washington-dc-capital-brutalism-national-building-museum-show-review?srnd=citylab-design
https://www.archpaper.com/2024/07/massachusetts-government-service-center-paul-rudolph-housing/
PRISON ARCHITECTURE = AFFORDABLE HOUSING?
A prison to housing seems an odd conversion to me …. The building types seems diametrically opposed in feel and function. And “I grew up in a prison” does not seem to be something one would want to say … or admit.
Although, being it is in NYC, and a cell is approximately the same size as many apartments …. it just might be a good fit!
https://www.archpaper.com/2024/07/cookfox-former-prison-manhattan-affordable-housing/
https://www.archpaper.com/2024/07/massachusetts-government-service-center-paul-rudolph-housing/
A TREE = HOUSING?
Many years ago i had this idea about a symbiotic relationship between trees / plants and humans; where the plant would grow in such a way as to provide housing and the inhabitants would provide CO2, fertilizer, and care.
It seems that nature may have beat me to it.
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