{"id":2483,"date":"2015-10-16T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2015-10-16T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:21:46","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/16\/one-of-my-favorite-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my Favorite Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Brutalist Architecture.”\u00a0 TreeHugger.com<\/strong><\/em>‘s Lloyd Alter celebrates<\/a> the 40th birthday of Robarts Library:<\/p>\n

Brutalist architecture is not very popular these days. The concrete in them has barely cured through, yet they are under threat everywhere. They are solidly built; tearing them down is a difficult job and a huge waste of energy, both embodied and in the process of demolition. Some people even say that they were designed to intimidate; at Slate they recently asked Were Brutalist Buildings on College Campuses Really Designed to Thwart Student Riots?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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(“Robarts Library<\/a>” by Dr.K.<\/a> – Own work<\/span>. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a> via Commons<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Quite the thing.\u00a0 Not too far from here, the University of Minnesota<\/strong><\/em> has Rarig Center<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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(“Rarig Center Minnesota 1<\/a>” by AlexiusHoratius<\/a> – Own work<\/span>. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a> via Commons<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Perhaps not as horridly magnificent, but it has its quiet sense of having stomped on something as it settled into place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Brutalist Architecture.”\u00a0 TreeHugger.com‘s Lloyd Alter celebrates the 40th birthday of Robarts Library: Brutalist architecture is not very popular these days. The concrete in them has barely cured through, yet they are under threat everywhere. They are solidly built; tearing them down is a difficult job and a huge waste of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2486,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}