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Brutalist architect, Ulrich Franzen, dies at 91
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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5 Comments
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?'
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