The future and Brutalism architecture
(From Architecture of Doom all credit due)
I am not an architect, but I take pictures of man-made construction (within a dreamlike, surreal world), buildings, streets, cities. Contrast between the power of nature. Most architecture has failed in the last decade, but at the same time a lot of human 'advancement' has also, as we see the inflated aspects of developing ideas reach a complacent point. Again nature will have the final world, which will be extreme in it's delivery.
Meantime, anyone that works in a business or understands the main issue facing financial stability of company profits, is to lower overheads/costs. This is a guess, but I'd say the energy efficiency of 99% of the modern buildings, which are made with cheap porous construction, over inundated with glass with a reliance of constant air conditioning - would be eye-bleeding. In other worlds, 99% of buildings thrown up into 'economic' wonderlands are zombies.
The question is will brutalism architecture make a comeback? Which if we are looking at reducing greenhouse emissions and cutting energy costs, the most energy efficient buildings (less glass, sealed construction i.e concrete and steal) are brutal in design (monolithic style construction). Is brutalism architecture. So the answer is: a probability. To replace that flawed idealism of Structural Expressionism, that in someways reminds me of economic rationalism, or Keynesian economics, mixed with large doses of determinism. This illusionary world of sustained human endeavours - which underestimate, with arrogance, the real power - which is of course nature, that lives within the realms of chaos.
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