Not everyone liked the skywalks, which connect buildings Mr. Franzen designed at Hunter College on Lexington Avenue. Neighbors lamented the loss of sunlight. But Mr. Franzen, a Modernist subscriber to the form-follows-function credo, considered them the functional equivalent of ivy-covered walkways for urban students. It would “become the college community’s main street,” he wrote of the skywalk plan in 1972 in the college’s student newspaper, “well above rush-hour traffic at street level.” — nytimes.com
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Brutalist ? Only ?
Is that little temple-in-the-woods Brutalist ? Well -- it vaguely owes something to Corbu -- and Corbu ended up with Brutalism . . .
Find Franzen in "The Decorated Diagram" -- or in "Modernism Reborn" -- and then tell me what he was . . .
(I'm not angry -- really. I actually had a great day.)
Brutalism is so overused. It is now being used as a bludgeon against all modern architecture.... bad PR people.
Talk about shoveling more dirt on someone's grave this obit had nothing nice to say. And I agree with Darkman that Brutalism is repeated so many times that i felt I was reading a page from Criminal minds. Is Brutalism an architecture crime?
I've always thought if his work as lyrical. RIP to a great mind.
i thought 'brutalism' was just internet for 'good'
or pop-consumer-speak for "huh?'