Week 3: Brutalism and Free Speech

Question 1

How does Brutalism represent the era of social changes that were the 60s?

Answer 1

• brutalist buildings were at once heavy, monumental, fortress-like, and authoritarian, but at the same time lyrical and poetic.
• they related to the diminishing social hierarchy and increase in collectivity

Question 2

Describe the modernism of the 60s.

Answer 2

Whereas previously modernism had been about glass and light, the new type of modernism that emerges in the 60s uses raw, corduroy concrete, with no decorations.

Question 3

What did Habitat 67 attempt to combine?

Answer 3

The density of the city with the comfort of the suburbs.

Question 4

How is habitat 67 related to Pollock’s art?

Answer 4

the action of making the project is the final form

Question 5

Relate Nakagin Capsule Tower to transportation.

Answer 5

the tower was influenced by the design of transportation