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Stoopid

There’s been plenty of debate about whether the recent interest in this much-maligned architectural style is due to aesthetic trends, or to a discovery of its long overlooked merits. I tend to believe that there are both beautiful and ugly buldings (in an aesthetic, functional, and cultural sense) within most styles, so generalisations about an entire movement aren’t always helpful: superficial stylistic fashions are a poor basis for creating or preserving architecure. But historic design styles carry with them connotations and associations beyond their original agenda, and often it is those, as much as their form or function, that people gravitate toward - Brutalism, for example, has become a kind of symbol for an urban underdog (and has featured in countless music videos in recent years as a result). The panel discussion in this video looks broadly at the potential reasons for, and implications of, the renewed popularity of this style. Photo:carphiles

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