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955. Adam Caruso & Peter St John /// Studio House /// Highbury, London, UK /// 1993-94
OfHouses presents Houses of the 90′s, part VII: SuperBritish. (Photos: © Hélène Binet. Source: Gennaro Postiglione, ’100: One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century’, Köln: Taschen, 2004.)
RAWconcrete is about a young boy traveling through space and time across the universe, a game featuring innovative combat mechanics (Transmutator Gun), photo-realistic graphics, realistic animations and audio, and above all, a very interesting story.
let's go 2025 ! MoD-happyNewYear
Brutalism haters will say "Top 10 worst most evil buildings in the world, signs that humanity is doomed and a dystopian apocalypse is upon us lest by the Lord's mercy they all be demolished" and then show you 10 of the most gorgeous badass buildings you've ever seen in your life. every time
#tbt Union Station #3 this was my first attempt doing stairs going down with both natural and artificial lighting, something that I still find challenging. . . . #paintingoftheday #geometric #perspective #painting (at Union Station)
The AFER Housing Development
Constanta, Romania,
Built in 1987.
architect Alexandru Costandache
IPJConstanta
(c) BACU / Photo Dumitru RUSU
#brutgroup
monolith || philippine heart center, qc
Manila has so much brutalist architecture and they're all underappreciated, ngl
Plattenbau "Paradise", Bratislava (SVK).
Source: own photo (2025)
Concrete shelter at bus station in front of Estádio Mané Garrincha, Brasília (BRA).
Source: own photo (2024)
„Silo-Auto“ Building (1964 by João Abel Bessa and Alberto José Pessoa), Porto (POR).
Rede Sarah de Hospitais de Reabilitação, Brasília (BRA). Source: own photo (2024)
Agência Nacional de Mineração, Brasília (BRA). Source: own photo 2024
Secretaria de Estado da Educação SC, Florianópolis, BRA. (source: own photo, 2024)
Schönenbuch CH.
sans titre - encre sur papier - 29,7 x 42cm - 2019
© Adrien Rousseau
Housing Discrimination
NO. 1
Racial exclusion, or segregation had real damage to the black communities persistent in their fight for freedom to own and be included in everything whites were already allowed in; the fight for equality, economic security, for education, and for fair housing was just beginning. Racial exclusion was such a severe enough problem, since in every near northern city, black newcomers crammed into old and run-down housing, mainly in dense central neighborhoods left behind by upwardly mobile whites. White builders, in charge of housing and agencies related could dictate who could own, and William Levitt, of Leviittown where massive developments were made in the suburb, was no exception.
These types of houses were ‘affordable for the common man’, and remade America’s landscape after World War II. The iconic images of little ranches and Cape Cods, set in spacious yards on curvilinear streets, stood for everything that America celebrated in the Cold War era. These subdivisions attracted a heterogenous mix of surburnites, blue-collar workers employed by U.S Steel factories, teachers, clerks, and administrators. Levitt celebrated the ‘American-ness’ of these houses, saying ‘’No man who owns his house and lot can be a communist. He has much to do.’’ Don’t really know how owning a house can get in the way of your political ideologies, but alright. And when Levitt was questioned about the racial homogeneity of his planned community, he responded, ‘’We can solve a housing problem or we can try to solve a racial problem, but we cannot combine the two.’’ But the housing and racial problem was connected, as blacks could not get these houses because they were black. One instance of racial exclusion was in metropolitan Philadelphia, where between 1946, only 347 of 120,000 new homes built were open to blacks. Langston Hughes, popular poet described black neighborhoods as the ‘land of rats and roaches, where a nickel cost a dime.
NO. 2
Economist Robert Weaver spoke, ‘’among the basic consumer goods, only housing for Negroes are traditionally excluded freely competing in the market.’’ The struggle to open housing was not just a matter of free access to a market excluded to blacks. Racial segregation had high stakes. In post war America, where you lived shaped your educational options, your access to jobs, and your quality of life. The housing markets also provided most Americans with their only substantial financial asset. Real estate was the most important vehicle for the accumulation of wealth. Breaking open the housing market would provide blacks to access to better-funded, higher-quality schools. It would give them the opportunity to live in growing communities–near the shopping malls, office centers, and industrial parks where almost all new job growth happened. And more importantly, it would narrow the wealth-gap between blacks and whites. The battle against housing discrimination in Levingttown, or anywhere else would be the most important in the entire northern freedom struggle.
NO. 3
Housing segregation in the north was built on a sturdy foundation of racial restrictions encoded in private regulations and public policy. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Midwest–and especially Indiana and Illinois, were dotted with ‘sundown towns’ places whose residents drove blacks off by force, enacted ordinances to prohibit black occupancy (although such ordinances were struck down by the Supreme Court in 1917), and sometimes posted signs, like that in Wendell Willkie’s Elwood, Indiana, warning blacks of the dire consequences of staying around after sunset. Such crude techniques succeeded in driving blacks out of small towns, but they were less effective in the major northern metropolitan areas that attracted the vast majority of African American migrants beginning in World War I.
Three devices were used to help housing discrimination: first, private but legally enforecable restrictive covenants—attached to nearly every housing development built between 1928 and 1948— forbade the use or sale of a property to anyone other than whites. Second, federal housing policies, enacted during the Depression, mandated racial homogeneity in new developments and created a separate, unequal housing market, underwritten with federal dollars, for blacks and whites. And third, real estate agents staunchly defended the ‘freedom of association and the right of home owners and developers to rent or sell to whom they pleased, steering blacks into racially mixed or all-black neighborhoods. Whites in the North had economic reasons to fear the ‘Negro invasion’ as they called it. Their ability to secure mortgages and loans were at risk. But their motivations were not solely economic. Intertwined concerns about property values were fears of black predation. North and South recoiled at the prospect of miscegenation. In the South, they feared the legal restrictions on intermarriage and racial mixing in public spaces; the North feared the regulation of housing markets.
The idea I had in my head didn’t quite come out the way I hoped, It was meant to be done as a concept piece where I’d see roughly what my style, wanted to incorp. Brutalism graphic design+graffiti and old film/ vhs elements but this isn’t really any of that
Spomenik: Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of the Kosmaj Partisan Detachment by Vojin Stojic & Gradimir Medaković (1970)
“The most obvious symbolic form embodied in this spomenik is that of the five-pointed star. This star (specifically the red star) was a pervasive and essential symbol to Yugoslavia, which symbolized strength and resistance, most specifically against fascism and Nazi occupation. As such, the star shape of this spomenik, designed by Vojin Stojic & Gradimir Medaković, would seem to be very appropriate given the events which transpired here.” (Info via spomenikdatabase.org
“Pavillon Wehrhafte Schweiz” (1964, Switzerland) ⬣ Raw concrete forms a crystalline shield
“GREETINGS CITIZENS. THE DATE IS SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1974: CIVIL RESURRECTION DAY. PLEASE PROCEED TO THE LAGOMORPHIC DISPENSIARY IN BLOCK 5 BETWEEN 1000 HOURS AND 1630 HOURS TO RECEIVE YOUR SUPPLEMENTARY DIETARY ALLOTMENT COURTESY OF THE GLORIOUS STATE. BE WARNED THAT NONCOMPLIANCE MAY RESULT IN DEMERITS ON YOUR FAMILY RATION ACCOUNT. WE THANK THE LEADER FOR THIS GIFT; MAY SHE LIVE FOREVERMORE. MESSAGE ENDS.”
The SOS Brutalism Team wishes you Happy Easter!
RT @BrutalHouse Behold! The Brutal Easter Bunny Returns — (Jyväskylä, Finland 1982) https://twitter.com/BrutalHouse/status/979631924586172416