I remember having mentioned in the first or second practice the great level of influence that architecture had in society.
Well, the charismatic leaders of dictatorships also had this idea in mind and used it to their advantage. What would they like to instill in society? TO SCARE.
I had the idea for this reflection during a visit to IVAM, I saw an exhibition on Soviet communist propaganda and I realized that they used architecture as a weapon.
It’s a shame this phrase «use architecture as a weapon» but it is. To instill fear and give a sense of continuous surveillance, darkness and uncertainty, constructivist or brutalist architecture was used.
The cities were filled with huge concrete blocks full of small houses where everyone lived on the brink of austerity, in claustrophobic places and looking through the windows at the barbaric things that «those from above» could do. By outrageous I mean those huge concrete monsters.
As the cities were constituted in this way, first they felt small before the power and in addition the darkness reigned due to the exaggerated shadows that the buildings made, which very soon denied the passage to the sunlight.
However, I don’t think we should connect brutalism with something bad either, it always depends on how it is used. However, here in Madrid, for example, this style meant sophistication.
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