Modernist Brutalism was architecture's own Hungerplan East, West, North and South.
A plan to eliminate worldwide all those oddball little gargoyles and spandrels that cluttered up the seamless streamlined moderne eugenic vision of simple, certain, eternal perfection.
There was to be no place for the oddball and the handicapped on this Voyage into the Future : on either humanity itself or on its material culture...
Dear old janus-headed Manhattan : giving us both lifesaving 'primitive' fungal slimes AND deadly 'advanced' atomic bombs. No wonder confused boomers were the most healthy and frightened kids ever.
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