Brutalist Architecture and Housing in the Postwar Era - Alexandra Road Estate and Barbican Estate 

As someone who grew up in a Victorian property, and still live in a home built just before WW2, brutalism is soulless and ugly. You don't have to make buildings ugly, as has been proved in the past.

. I worked for the district housing office that looked after Rowley Way in 1986. A pretty decent estate

really enjoyed your critical thinking and response

The concrete does not age well and is nice at first then becomes grubby and depressing, I agree.

Go homeless, don't worry. There's a fucking lot of people out there in need of now homes

True my friend, this is made by a text-to-speech program

@@HistoryandTheoryofArchitecture that's a shame. The content was interesting

I think this can be a nice way of delivering a content if you are not good in reading or even speaking english? .. :)

@@HistoryandTheoryofArchitecture that's fair, and I'm sure many people would be OK with it. It's too obviously artificial for me and it gets in the way. I'd prefer to hear a natural accent and read subtitles if it's unclear, myself. No disrespect intended. I just wanted to provide some feedback. I wish you well

No I completely agree, these are made by students, and many of them are really shy to even talk about those projects in class, this gave them a sort of comfort zone to present their work without being worried about possible mistakes, errors… But definitely I’m on your side

You know what really causes depression and oppression? Not having enough affordable housing and having a huge amount of population struggling to live by themselves. I would fucking love to live there. It's practical, efficient, and beautiful I'm the eyes of people who really enjoy architecture.

Thank you for mansplaining that to me@@DunkDuncan. I am not simply stating my personal opinion but also referencing a paper put out by a South African University in the 80s where a friend researched the effects of high-density living in brutalist-inspired blocks, (a particular favorite of the Nazu inspired government of the time) as opposed to free-standing simple dwellings on the lower-income families and the findings were objectively assessed. The results showed an alarmingly high rate of depression in the brutalist buildings by comparison. I appreciate the iconic nature of the Barbican architecture but I feel that what followed was a sad and poorly interpreted mass-produced interpretation that delivered poorly conceived housing. The bottlenecks in the clustered designs led to the exploitation of gangs and bullies and the anonymity of being one of that number housed in a box in the lines of identical austere spaces led to a lack of identity in the individuals. It is some time since these numbers were crunched and the inevitable conclusion drawn and I ask all architects to give pause to the thoughts that whilst there is beauty in rugged functional design, there should be more thought for the family unit. At this time with climate change challenges and economic hardship new ideas have emerged like the Hockerton Housing Project in the Netherlands or Lemmer - Seestadt Aspern in Austria where one can work and be housed in one family-friendly space. Perhaps we should be abandoning the icons for ideals that are more sustainable and promote happiness.

Each home should have it's own garden, people thrive much better with their own private green space, especially in large town's or cities were there is a large density of people.

​​@@DunkDuncan No, you are the eye's of the people who enjoy brutalist architecture.