Bold and unforgiving, the Brutalist landmarks and modernist housing estates which sprang up across Europe in the wake of the Second World War still dominate cities in the former Eastern bloc. [...]
The Calvert Journal talked to designers and creatives across the New East who are now reclaiming socialist-era Brutalism as a driving force behind their work, changing mindsets, updating old designs for the modern age and making their own statements on gentrification, nostalgia and innovation.
— The Calvert Journal
The Brutalism-inspired design products by (mostly Eastern) European creatives Calvert Journal talked to range from stylish Russian flower vases to nostalgic Slovak pre-fab panelák furniture, German post-war housing cuckoo clocks, a Modernist Belgrade Map, and Polish miniature tower block building kits and Polaroid photo projects.
Find more design creations here.
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Nooooo! Stop finding inspiration in brutalism! For the love of architecture! Why can’t Architects find inspiration in plants again or anything but oppressionism?
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hahaha, like this:
Or that horrible oppressor Neave Brown or Moshe Safdie and his oppressive Habitat. What's with that hyperlink in your post though?
I like much of the work of civic modernism (aka brutalist) but I think it’s a bit lame if we are just rehashing the past as the present and future. It’s almost 2020, not 1950. And yet the most progressive institutions don’t want to push design forward and showcase social-minded architecture that isn’t drab as the more medeocre manifestations of this style became
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