Is Shauna pro Brutalism? Not my favorite era, None of this mucking about with blending in with the terrain, like Morris, the Greenes or Wright. Give them great chunks of jagged concrete with tiny windows. All the aesthesia of a freshly severed limb.At least she’s got a good set of pipes to fall back on, if her mates are any judge.
The University of Texas at Dallas, where I was a graduate student, has completely Brutalist architecture— seemingly designed for maximum ugliness. Also, both the buildings and the rooms in the buildings had a wildly confusing numbering system nobody could understand, with labyrinthine corridors that changed level suddenly, so you were never sure what floor you were on, or even which side of a building you were near. There were assorted campus legends about why the school was built that way. The most popular was that when the university was in its early planning phases, in the 1960s and early 70s, was the great period of student activism and “campus unrest,” so the buildings were designed for defense against the great student uprisings that were expected. There’s probably no truth whatever to that, but it makes a fine story, and that’s what’s important, isn’t it?
scyphi26 over 6 years ago
Like seriously, props to her for truly just rolling with it.
MeanBob Premium Member over 6 years ago
Is Shauna pro Brutalism? Not my favorite era, None of this mucking about with blending in with the terrain, like Morris, the Greenes or Wright. Give them great chunks of jagged concrete with tiny windows. All the aesthesia of a freshly severed limb.At least she’s got a good set of pipes to fall back on, if her mates are any judge.
seismic-2 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Shauna makes a good power violence vocalist, but I really wish she had signed up for the “tuba squad” instead.
Grayhair, The Pirate Formerly Known as Tom Powell Premium Member over 6 years ago
It’s got interesting lyrics but I’m not sure I could dance to it.
Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago
I hate Brutalistic architecture.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
It is brutal to my artistic and aesthetic senses.
GaryCooper over 6 years ago
“Brutalism UK” is a freakin’ awesome name for a rock band.
GaryCooper over 6 years ago
The University of Texas at Dallas, where I was a graduate student, has completely Brutalist architecture— seemingly designed for maximum ugliness. Also, both the buildings and the rooms in the buildings had a wildly confusing numbering system nobody could understand, with labyrinthine corridors that changed level suddenly, so you were never sure what floor you were on, or even which side of a building you were near. There were assorted campus legends about why the school was built that way. The most popular was that when the university was in its early planning phases, in the 1960s and early 70s, was the great period of student activism and “campus unrest,” so the buildings were designed for defense against the great student uprisings that were expected. There’s probably no truth whatever to that, but it makes a fine story, and that’s what’s important, isn’t it?
danshen over 5 years ago
Mods don’t understand Modernism, brutes don’t understand Brutalism.