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Is that a prison?

Is that a prison?

You'd think?

But actually, people PAY to go there...

UF

Ahh, the brutalist school played heavily there huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

Oh yeah, I'm quite familiar with the brutalist movement in modern architecture.  My best friend growing up is an architect who loves modern styles (as do I) but I've always taken great fun in beating him up over the existence of brutalism (which he doesn't actually favor, either).

Honestly I don't mind the idea of the movement, and there are a handful of really aesthetically pleasing examples of the style.  But for the most part, it's just really, really ugly and depressing.

From your linked article, here's one I like:



And here's a legendary and iconic brutalist cathedral in Brazil that I think is quite striking:

Outside:



Inside:

My dad was an architect. He was a big fan of Frank Lloyd Wright, but an even bigger fan of Mies van der Rohe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe

He ended up in Chicago and taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where my dad studied architecture. I've never actually asked if he studied under him directly or not, but possibly so given the timeline of that Wiki article. 

I actually don't really know much about architecture, though. I think I learned more when I took my wife to Chicago and we did one of the Chicago River boat architecture tours than I probably learned from him. Mostly because I guess I wasn't interested and didn't ask. 

But the one thing I did pick up from him was the idea that architectural "style" should be more about adapting to a setting than trying to build something for its own stylistic sake. I think that might be more of a Wright influence as I don't know how much van der Rohe did residential work. Which is why my ex never understood that when we'd be walking around Newport Beach, CA I would chafe so much at certain designs--particularly for houses that were on the water:

• Houses built as A-frames with a lot of roof slope. Uhh, it's not gonna snow. You don't need a design that will minimize snow load. 
• One particular house would have been a PERFECT house in New Orleans. Big wraparound (covered) porch with beautiful wrought iron railings. Which is important when you live in the humid South pre-AC and you want to avoid getting too much sunlight into the house. Stupid when you live in arid Newport Beach, where it barely ever gets hot enough for AC, and you want to bring in all the light you can. Great house; stupid to build it in that location. 
• Houses that had small segmented windows, and few of them. You live in a place that is freaking gorgeous. You should have floor-to-ceiling windows anywhere you can. 

I really hate beautiful houses built in the wrong location for their design style. You build the house to fit a place, not try to shoehorn a "style" from somewhere else where it's not appropriate.  

Not a big fan of Mies' work.

University of Texas:

This is some kind of sleight of hand.  The A&M pics are ground level view of hum-drum or ugly buildings.  Not to offend, but this is just mostly hum-drum or ugly buildings, dressed up under the guise of an aerial shot which makes it all seem more aesthetically pleasing.  

I'm sure UT has some gorgeous buildings, but I don't think these are the photos that prove it.