Check out my piece in the latest issue of Utah Planner

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I'm happy to note that my October 2013 blog post entitled "Collegiate brutal: Why brutalist-style buildings are so common on American college campuses" is a featured article in the latest issue of Utah Planner, the newsletter of the Utah chapter of the American Planning Association. In the piece I highlighted a recent article by J. Bryan … Continue reading Check out my piece in the latest issue of Utah Planner

Collegiate brutal: Why brutalist-style buildings are so common on American college campuses

Posted on by Dustin

Were brutalist-style academic buildings really designed to thwart student riots and counterculture? Probably not, writes Slate's J. Bryan Lowder. The more likely reason: because they were cheap. University administrators were looking after the bottom line a little more than they were looking to quell student aspirations. Though, as any student who has taken classes in a cold, colorless, concrete brutalist building may tell you, they may have succeeded in doing that, too.