Brutalist architecture is a style that emerged in the 1950’s in the United kingdom as a part of the effort to reconstruct post WWII. The style makes use of exposed concrete and angular lines, often used to (inexpensively) build institutional and government funded buildings, such as libraries, court houses and council housing. It seems fascinating to me that an architectural style used in communal spaces can feel so void of humanity and spirit due to its lack of colour and unforgiving design. Brutalism fell truly out of fashion in the 70’s, the remnants of the architectural craze that remains today feel colder and more inhumane then how they started, often being left in dilapidated and corroded states. Notably the brutalist buildings erected for the purpose of council housing blocks which were once filled to the brim with residents, now lay in derelict or have already been demolished, representing an old and rejected ideology the people who were made to live there did not accept themselves. I think this feeling of disregard towards humanity in this style is very evident and this paradoxical idea of something made to be for people but in a style that pays no respect to the human spirit really speaks for what atmosphere is created and underlines why people hold the connotations that they do surrounding brutalist architecture, this is something I wanted to get across and inflict on the viewer of my work within this concept.