https://emsenn.net/tags/architecture/ Recent content in Architecture on emsenn.net Hugo en Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/engineering/domains/design/texts/brutalism/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://emsenn.net/library/domains/engineering/domains/design/texts/brutalism/ <p>Brutalism, as drawn on by <a href="../topics/visual-engineering/index.md" class="link-internal">visual engineering practices</a>, is treated not as a historical architectural style but as a constraint-set and ethic: <a href="../../../../humanities/domains/sociology/terms/legibility.md" class="link-internal">legibility</a> of structure, <a href="../../../../humanities/domains/sociology/terms/refusal.md" class="link-internal">refusal</a> of ornamental deception, and an insistence that what is there is there for a reason. It does not equate to &ldquo;utilitarianism&rdquo; or mere minimalism.</p> <h2 id="methods-and-approach"><a href="#methods-and-approach" class="heading-anchor" aria-label="Link to this section">¶</a>Methods and approach </h2> <p>Reyner Banham&rsquo;s 1955 essay &ldquo;The New Brutalism&rdquo; [@banham1955] identified the movement&rsquo;s commitment to exposing structure rather than concealing it behind cosmetic surfaces. Adolf Loos&rsquo;s earlier &ldquo;Ornament and Crime&rdquo; [@loos1908] supplied the ethical substrate: ornament as a form of waste that, in design terms, taxes the attention budget without improving orientation.</p>