THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AFOOT to try to persuade the public that the architectural style known as BRUTALISM has been other than an aesthetic, social and urban disaster. It is as if the National Association of Thugs were trying to persuade the public that being robbed in the street at knifepoint were a life-enhancing experience.
Recently I noticed a headline in The Herald (formerly the Glasgow Herald). Announcing an exhibition, it read, “A monstrous design: The beauty of Glasgow’s Brutalist buildings”, Accompanying the article were pictures of such buildings, one of them with a glass frontage not blacked, but pinked out, with the words “PEOPLE MAKE GLASGOW” in huge lettering inscribed on the vast pink space.
Needless to say, the buildings themselves could have been anywhere from…
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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024