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  • “let’s use concrete only because it’s the fashion”

    This is a paradoxical sentence in this context. Raw material was used because it was practical and functional, but at the same time it was fashionable too.

    It’s precisely what fashion is, a trend in design in a certain art school. However the lack of an aesthetic ideology does make it anti-fashion too.

    One could say that the embellishments that mellow out the raw/harshness of the brutalist style is antithetical to it, though. It’s think that Corbusier would take offense with his name associated with this.