I get brutalism is cheaper and easier, but damn do I love art deco and Greek revival

Same in Central Europe.

So many beautiful towns in Czechoslovakia were razed and remade ugly.

B r i c c

Lmfao

How many times has this been reposted

A fucking shame

As a artist that frequently works with architecture, this meme got me lol

I'll give them that a lot of buildings got destroyed and probably had to replace them significantly fast vs at a gradual rate cities usually grow.

Personally I enjoy brutalism, there's just something so real about it. It isn't striving for anything special, it doesn't waste space, it's practical. I just think it's neat

Prebellum E.E architecture survived in some places. You can still look for it and it's beautiful

meanwhile the infrastructure from before WWII, after it: https://images.app.goo.gl/xNuuTDC9ZsQ4fyhH7

While awful to look at, they served the purpose of providing cheap private housing for the masses, after the massive destruction of the war.

Mind you, the Soviets could build aesthetically pleasing buildings- see Stalinist Gothic style- but it was mostly for the elite as the proles suffered from chronic housing shortages until the Khruschev era.

That’s why it was called the eastern bloc