Post #1267068

2026-04-03 14:24 UTC

This architectural style is called, no kidding, Soviet Brutalism, and was the primary architectural style featured in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1980s. It’s a divergence from Western brutalism, focusing more on utopian and futuristic themes. So, no, it’s not anything political. It’s a cultural thing. Boston City Hall, for example: The campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology, a.k.a. “Brick City”:

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@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2026-04-03 14:47

was the primary architectural style featured in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1980s. It wasn’t so much a “style” as what happens when you can only afford to build projects in rubles.

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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 16:00

Honolulu has a bunch of brutalism, along with a bunch of other architectural movements https://thinktechhawaii.com/more-tropical-brutalism-humane-architecture/ I had to screen grab it, but there is actually a brutalist bhudist temple in Chinatown in Honolulu

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@sem@lemmy.ml 2026-04-03 15:59

I would say "socialist modernism", not " soviet brutalism". Because there are a lot of examples not from ex USSR. This is Belgrade, Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia): Museum of Modern Arts: ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/13d88874-5e91-432f-9eab-715af92eadaa.jpeg) Hotel "Yugoslavija": ![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ba0ddedb-e374-40da-b408-61b4992cf371.jpeg)

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