I like the chutzpah of this question which we rarely pose in today's relativist culture, and I tend to agree that the 60's and 70's architecture was unpleasant on the whole. read more
Brutalist architecture is a movement in architecture that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. Brutalism was posited not as a style but as the expression of an atmosphere among architects of moral seriousness. read more
The group saw architecture as a means of participating in the social and political protests of the 1960s through organising seminars and distributing free copies of their fotoromanzi (picture-stories). read more
Imagine hanging out inside a PVC bubble, moving to a town made up of construction cranes, or living in a house built with metal mesh. These are the kinds of futuristic architectural designs dreamed up during the 1960s and 1970s: a period when politics, pop culture and technology collided to spawn a new era of radical creativity in architecture. read more