It’s a truth seen in all they create. Meaningless, crude “Public Art” is a good example. Architecture, too. I’ve mentioned this before on FR, but I once years ago visited the new (now not so new) De Young Museum in San Francisco with a former friend who’d gone off the end of the leftist scale. The Museum’s architecture is disturbingly cold and brutal, and clearly designed to be so. Odd proportion, rust, and grotesque massing all contribute to an unsettled, post-something statement by its designer and the committee that approved it. I commented on how repulsive it was. He couldn’t stop talking about how much he liked it, and what it communicated. Two different minds. Check it out, and compare it to the former one. Quite a contrast.
Totally agree - it is uuuuuuuuuuuugly!
Yeah, that's why they call it brutalism.