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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Welcome to A Style is Born, hosted by CZcamsr, cartoonist, and champion of under-represented history, Kaz Rowe!
Join us as we go down the rabbit hole and uncover the unique histories and origin stories behind your favorite design styles. In this episode, we delve into Brutalism's raw and austere origins. Learn about the design style that lead to the popular Mid-Century Modern and Minimalism trends!
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CHAPTERS:
INTRO - 00:00
SO, WHAT IS BRUTALISM, ANYWAY? - 00:53
THE ORIGINS OF BRUTALISM - 01:50
THE EMBODIMENT OF THE MODERN OFFICE - 03:29
THE NUANCES OF BRUTALISM - 04:50
BRUTALIST STYLE - 05:57
A MOVEMENT ABOUT HONESTY - 07:16
BRUTALISM IS FOR EVERYONE! - 08:31
CONCLUSION - 09:38 - Jak na to + styl
Brutalist spaces can feel cold but come to life with the right decor. What are your favorite ways to bring warmth and charm to a brutalist interior?
Well placed lighting. And acceptance.
Warm accent colors in decorating
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It’s calming: there’s nothing to see, so you can ignore it as you travel from space to space.
This sort of blank space, background noise to the features of a living space are incredibly comforting to my ADD for some reason.
And it's the exact opposite for me: it stresses me out. It's cold, empty, depressed, and foreboding. It gives my ADHD no stimulation and it feels like how nails on a chalkboard sounds.
Different strokes for different folks. 🤷♀️
I disagree completely, it’s loudly blank, it’s loudly offensive, it’s loudly ugly. I also go to college at Uic, which is nearly entirely brutalist buildings. I can’t just ignore my college campus lmao
Just a quick note on Le Corbusier's building in Marseille: its nickname is "la maison du fada" in the local dialect, which means the madman's house - rather than the madhouse
This was super interesting! I am very much a maximalist like Kaz, but I have grown to appreciate some Brutalist architecture, particularly the Barbican Centre in London - it does indeed feel pretty cosy inside!
I worked in a correctional facility for 17 years, and it shared many hallmarks of brutalist architecture. Lots of raw concrete, weird polygonal shapes, most of the buildings protruded out at odd angles, lots of glass in the admin buildings and elsewhere (much of it tinted, sometimes thick like hard plastic and allegedly bulletproof.)
I hated it. Granted, I'm biased af, because I absolutely hated my job. I walked through security checkpoints and turnstiles posted up under looming chain-link fences with barbed wire coils along the top rail, and I associated this very peculiar architectural style with the stench of dry, crusty instant milk so sour it reminded me of grape drink. I see it and think of sticky cement floors, and the rank odor of mushy trash scraped out of hard trays into bus tubs so the trays could go into the dish pit. I think of the catwalk where I used to smoke, back when they let us smoke, and the way it wrapped around psych ops inmates saturated in a miasma of urine and dried shit and body odor and tragedy. Even the hallways had that disgusting elementary-school cafeteria smell.
This is such an amazing video! I'm loving these wayfair and Kaz Rowe collab uploads!! As an architectural theory and art history grad student, I feel like this was made for me!!! 🥺 forever grateful to my life changing modern architecture professor who introduced me to brutalism!
I appreciate this video for giving me a better understanding of why I dislike brutalism. I really enjoy the beautiful absurdity of intentionally over-the-top artifice, and brutalism is the exact opposite.
Also worth noting: raw materials are often less durable than those that are finished. A lot of decorative treatments sprang out of practical ways to make things last longer, by making them more weather-resistant or easier to keep clean and make repairs. By chucking them out altogether, brutalism is stating a preference for replacement vs longterm maintenance. I have very strong feelings about that particular issue.
My city (Brisbane, QLD) has a very brutalist museum and performing arts precinct along the waterfront, and I'm actually quite fond of it. Brutalism can be really cool when done right, but there's definitely also a lot of soulless collections of rectangles under the brutalist umbrella that I don't care for.
I’ve always enjoyed brutalist architecture. It’s quiet and yet foreboding, I also find it works super well in worldbuilding. For example in the new Dune movie, the brutalist themes throughout the film are simple and yet say a lot about the characters and the world they live in. It’s (in my opinion) an ageless style type if done right, and can work for so many different reasons. That being said, art nouveau/ Neoclassical/gothic are all my faves which are also pretty different 😂
I've grown to like the shapes and the simplicity of brutalist buildings, but maybe part of the criticism is related to how these buildings age - some of them gather weird ominous stains or just get covered in cladding.
i’m a seattlite surrounded by brutalist structures in parks, on buildings, at random… can’t wait to dive into this video
Have always loved the strength of this architecture and when done well, it is amazing. A neutral blank canvas that can be softened and brightened up into a comfortable home. For example Trellick Tower in London amongst other iconic 20th C ‘habitations’…
There is nothing that will help me enjoy brutalism. To each their own, but the style depresses me.
I thought that too until a friend posted a photo of La Tulipe in Geneva - a surprisingly beautiful example of brutalist architecture.
@@rruthlessly ok, I looked it up and you’re right. That’s the first piece of brutalist architecture I’ve ever liked. So I have found the one apparently lol. Thanks for sharing. It’s a fascinating structure.
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I love Kaz Rowe! ❤
Us too
So I live in France, and these apartment buildings that look like they belong in the soviet block are extremely common here, I didn't know till after I moved here that the dude that designed the soviet apartment buildings was actually French, hahahahah. Anyways. I don't mind them ,per say, I think if they are done with certain materials not just straight concrete they can look kinda nice, the problem with most of them is that when they start to age over time they look extremely dated, more so than the Haussmann buildings in say Paris where those have taken on a certain "charm" I guess. I swear the only concrete block apartment buildings here in France that still look decent are the ones that are not made from concrete, hahahha, they're usually made from stone or other natural materials and were better made and aren't falling apart or look dirty and extremely dated.
Hell yea Kaz get that money
I went to school at UCSD and while it was cool to have an iconic piece of brutalist architecture as our library, it was absolutely depressing to live in a brutalist building. The concrete walls were so sad and many of us felt like it looked like a prison. That being said, we could see the ocean from our roof so it wasn’t all bad 🤷🏻♀️
ty for pausing and leaning into the dissonance between the Artist and his Art. hard to grapple with...
There is a concrete factory on Highway 401, East of Toronto. I like looking at it when I pass by, and imagine what would it be like to live there.
Good on Kaz for bringing nuance to the conversation, as they often do, and good on Wayfair for publishing the nuanced story without whitewashing it
I love brutalism. It’s very decisive I live in a city with some impressive brutalism and it’s all gonna be gone soon you can sense it
Good. Your city is better off without it. :P
@@luciddreamer616no azz head . Needs to stay ...get your idiotic modern Archy out of here ...
My 2 favorite styles are art nouveau and brutalism. Yes decorating my space is a nightmare ahah.
👍👍 I can honestly say I enjoy a broad range of styles but one of my very favourite modern materials, indoors or outdoors, is woodgrain concrete for walls 😊👌
Fun fact: the Wayfair company headquarters was once in the brutalist 177 Huntington tower
There's much more to this theme and imo it's more understandable in terms of location and time (Europe vs US, especially post-ww2; different social outlooks, different ways of building). I grew up in ex-socialist country and brutalism was pretty much my natural habitat 😄 but I also think that it's not the best solution for home interior design, unless you like that museum/mausoleum feel. However, it pairs up very well with mid-century interior
I actually love some brutalist. Love the Barcelona daybed and I have 2 very heavy brutalist poufs that are structured but made of a beautiful woven rattan. I’ve added linen pillows on top for my cats that really soften their look.❤
This is how I find out I kind of like brutalism! There's a cleanliness and neatness to it that's so satisfying.
Very good.
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I personally don’t like brutalism, but I still respect its right to exist. Here in Sweden, there’s a movement called the “Architect’s uprising” that’s just some ignorant people whining about brutalism and current architecture without having any clue about anything they’re talking about. I myself adore Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement, but I cannot and will not support sacrificing things like accessibility and safety for it. The “Architect’s Uprising” people are happy to skimp out on materials and safety and comfort, as long as they glue plastic Victorian-style ornaments on top so it still looks like their uninformed ideas of what “a good looking house” looks like.
Ideally I’d like to live in a house built using a combination of modern and old techniques and materials, preferably in an Art Nouveau style. Or, failing that, some kind of attempt at making a house with a similar vibe to the houses found in Morrowind, an old video game with a unique visual style.
The brutal thing about brutalism is that it (unconsciously?) shows the rejection of the ideal of nature and despises the importance of beauty.
Not to forget that many people who live in such buildings do so not because of aesthetic appeal, but because of a lack of options.
I don't know that many architects, but the ones I know all live in old building apartments with modern furnishings...is that a coincidence?
I'm planning on building a studio with loft around 24 sqm and I'm going with this style. Love the rawness of it.
Also, it's cheaper to build here in terms of materials.
Hmmm
Love it.
Art Nouveau is also my personal favorite, but I don't actually own anything in that category.
Nice!
Interesting
I have not heard of the term stealth wealth. I do like the look, Blade Runner 2049 has a great scene of Niander Wallace's private dwellings, it's sterile, haunting and the specular reflection of the water washing over the warm surfaces make it beautiful all at the same time.
I question the sanity of anyone decorating their home in this 'stone age asylum' style lol.
Is art moderne the same thing as streamline moderne?
i can see the beauty especially if you incorporate a lot of green from plants
but it’s just not for me
Daylin has the most the best?
is this kaz's second channel ?
No. They're hosting the second season of a series.
It concrete and steel looks like Russia apartments block
I already liked brutalism, but I'm down for a history lecture. [gets popcorn]
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I like Tom Kundig’s interpretation of brutalism with incorporation of unique mechanical and steel industrial elements. I have no idea what i just said but i know what i meant. Look at his stuff and you may see what i mean.
I feel safe inside a brutalist building, I love them shape, the raw look of concrete, but the most ugliest buildings I've ever seen are brutalist
I like mixing Brutalism with Southwestern.
Brutalist buildings to me always seemed to have a threatening character. Lol
They'll get brutal
Feels a bit empty without a discussion of how environmentally awful brutalism is and the popularity of eco brutalism that's giving people a false impression
You meant you prefer cutting trees and cause deforestation?
Grow up. All buildings are environmentally bad in one way or another. Unless you want to build teepees that is made from sticks and grass.
Brutalist architecture: I’m not sheltering you from the elements, I’m making you live inside a dark cloud made of sharp corners covered in rough sandpaper.
Nice attempt at a joke, but this ain't true.
Seriously, if you live anywhere it rains regularly, unfinished concrete is just the worst.
That's not true. Seattle has plenty of unfinished concrete, and it looks beautiful in the rain.
Especially in the city ....ugh can't stand it
i really think your outlook on brutalism depends on whether you grew up in a soviet bloc (third world) country or not. A bit disappointed that that history was skipped in this video. Also a lot of people just have to live in a brutalist apartment because that’s what’s available and cheapest, and it looks nothing like those fancy pictures 🤷
i love brutalism so much. After the worship of ancient whiteness plaguing the definition of beauty (victorian, roman, greek, baroque, gothic), display of oppulence of antique furniture adquired by the forefathers of opression, brutalism looks to me as a mallet to the head of hyerarchy. Its just a fucking block of concrete. We can all live together in it. Your house is mine. My house is yours. We can make of it what we have in our hands and be the people we are now, we can be equal and make our identity of our own making. I love altered brutalism. I wish someday to have a block of concrete to paint the pictures of what i truly find beauty in all across the raw walls of it.
People are fools . And have no idea what people can come with it when they see different architecture....they wanna see some fancy, rainbow type shit
Just started to see it. Never heard of this architecture before ....
living in a brutalist interior sounds like torture to me. nothing but naked concrete walls and rigid materials echoing every single goddamn noise you and your neighbours make into your home.
brutalism is torture
😂😂😂u serious
Noise are unavoidable butt head
I guess that brutalism is kinda scrunchy lol
Bring it back so millennials can have cheaper houses
Right on it lol
As someone from Eastern Europe I cannot stress enough how much I despise brutalism and commie blocks. It saps out all the joy from your surroundings and enforces melancholy and depression. It is also a grim reminder of post commie consequences as they are pretty much ''town tumors'' scattered everywhere and almost impossible to remove.
😂😂😂 damn weather in Europe ...all that cloudy , raining and shit dude ....
@@Moodboard39 Nah, you are thinking of England. In the Balkans the weather is quite nice and varied. But the mere site of commie blocks can ruin even the sunniest of days.
Its like they amplify the gloomy weather and dampen the good weather.
I studied and worked in brutalist buildings. The featureless greyness depressed me every day. Humans need colour, structure and variation. Brutalist buildings are a form of torture.
Yeah, Brutalism is still so boring and lifeless. Everything screams prison about it