Question – Can you Guess What Building this is?
   1. Is it the North Korean Reeducation Center?
   2. The FSB (formerly KGB) Detention Center?
   3. WWII Nazi Gestapo Interrogation Center?
   4. The Soylent Green Processing Plant?

This building is The Palace of Assembly in Chandigarh, India, It was designed by Le Corbusier in 1962… it conjures up the image of the evil lair of a James Bond villain – and the only way you can escape is in a bodybag – This is Brutalism!

Brutalism (Aka Socialist architecture) was a controversial style of architecture that is said to have begun in 1951, however it really began in 1928 under Stalin and was called socialist realism (some people prefer to hide this fact). Brutalism supposedly disappeared by the mid-seventies, but it still continued until the early 90’s.

Le Corbusier (an overrated post-modernist architect) is considered the principal instigator of this incendiary style. His politics swayed from Fascism to Stalinism to Socialism (I guess he needed work). In 1928 he traveled to Moscow to enter a design competition called “The Palace of the Soviets.” His brutalist presentation was even too radical by Soviet standards, nevertheless he went on to design 10 smaller buildings there.

The word “brutalism” was derived from the French phrase, béton brut, meaning “raw or unfinished concrete.” It’s an emotionless style that has no aesthetic qualities and is devoid of any beauty – it simply inspires dread and fear.

Function Over Form
The spirit of Brutalism is Collectivism, the leitmotif found in this style consists of mammoth-sized gray monoliths built with steel reinforced concrete and rough-hewn stone. The raw concrete looks distorted and depressing. These grim and decaying gray structures are often portrayed in a majority of distopian Sci-Fi movies – a good depiction is in the movie Blade Runner 2049.

The Heritage of Brutalism
#1. This style of architecture started in the Soviet Union in 1928, the purpose was to embody the perfect socialist ideology. You can also see this style of architecture in the late 60s in America and Europe, it’s called government subsidized buildings (i.e. housing projects).

#2. Brutalism rocketed to popualrity in the late 1940’s to the early 50s in an effort to restore cities that were devastated during WWII, i.e. in Europe, England and the Soviet Union. The raw concrete was exceptionally cost efficient and easy to work with.

#3. Brutalism became especially popular in Great Britain in the 1950s due to the vast destruction by the V-2 rockets. Strangely, more than a few English architects were also influenced by the concrete Nazi bunkers they encountered during the war.

#4. Brutalism was especially esteemed in the Soviet Union and Eastern European Bloc countries because it was a repudiation of the bourgeois modernism movement of the 1930s.

Since Brutalism so Ugly – Why is Making a Comeback?
#1. It’s a collectivist construct, it fits the back-to-front social trend of todays political movement. Corporations and universities have also jumped on the bandwagon promoting ideas of equity. Equity may sound like equality but there is a huge difference – Equal outcome is not equality – equity is socialism.

#2. Brutalism is less costly, and architects who evangelize and advocate this style are not always the true believers they seem to be. They are being financially rewarded with huge contracts from private developers and government agencies.

The Retrogression Begins
Architecture has always reflected the political and economic realities of the times. It’s abundantly clear that globalists are aggressively planning to reshape the world under socialism and a critical tool to inititiate this new era is brutalism architecture. As soon as president Biden was elected he wasted no time in declaring that he would eliminate classical architecture for new federal buildings and replacing them with brutalism and post-modernist styles.

Ayn Rand hit the nail on the head in her dystopian novella Anthem, she writes, collectivists achieve their ideal by burning cities and books, then implementing central planning. Now everyone is equal: equally poor, equally housed, equally limited in what they can say and do and think.