Bodaciously Brutalist & "Shoulder Pads" Postmodernism
Chicago Architecture Crash Course 12-Week Series
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36m
The architecture that comes after modernism tends to have only two reactions. People either utterly despise Brutalism and Postmodernism or they think there's just nothing better. Part eleven of our Chicago Architecture Crash Course will leave the judgments up to you, focusing on why architectects leapt to new materials and new forms in the late 20th century.
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