Wednesday, February 25, 2009
'The Beauty of Brutalism'
After the Meninos complete renovations on their homes, they may want to turn their this-old-house attention to what Yale has done to its Paul Rudolph Hall, a modern "brutalism" structure similar to Boston's City Hall. ... Hub Blog has long urged a common-sense restoration of City Hall (scroll down to second item). But the author in the first link doesn't seem optimistic about saving City Hall, calling Boston "obdurately clueless" and adding:
After the Meninos complete renovations on their homes, they may want to turn their this-old-house attention to what Yale has done to its Paul Rudolph Hall, a modern "brutalism" structure similar to Boston's City Hall. ... Hub Blog has long urged a common-sense restoration of City Hall (scroll down to second item). But the author in the first link doesn't seem optimistic about saving City Hall, calling Boston "obdurately clueless" and adding:
The current City Hall is being systematically and willfully destroyed by abusive neglect, aggravated malfunction, and spreading bureaucratic blight.
