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Why are you finding brutalist architecture oppressive?
They tend to look like something someone who didn’t give a shit made. “I just need a box for people to be in, who cares what it looks like?” The example brutalist churches in another post here look like someone doing a horrible experiment in the Sims made buildings without bothering to use anything but some default wall texture they found buried in the dev tools that doesn’t even tile very well, because they just nee…
I don't see it that way at all. A lot of care and thought went into these designs, and they evoke the kind of awe you would expect from a god's house. These aren't just hulking concrete bunkers like some of the institutional brutalism you see.