PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoWhy do schools look like prisons and are there any countries where they don't?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down14
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareWhy do schools look like prisons and are there any countries where they don't?PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squarecomfy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 hours ago into that communist architecture feeling I’m guessing you’re talking about the post-WWII low-cost housing Khrushchevka (“commieblocks”), Soviet modernism, or the related Brutalist concrete architecture? (Because in context I assume it’s not constructivist, socialist classicism, or non-Soviet styles from around the world)
minus-squaregeneva_convenience@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 hours ago“Communist architecture” also known as “building cheap efficient affordable housing in bulk in a destroyed economy instead of a letting everyone be homeless to build a few pretty houses”
I’m guessing you’re talking about the post-WWII low-cost housing Khrushchevka (“commieblocks”), Soviet modernism, or the related Brutalist concrete architecture? (Because in context I assume it’s not constructivist, socialist classicism, or non-Soviet styles from around the world)
“Communist architecture” also known as “building cheap efficient affordable housing in bulk in a destroyed economy instead of a letting everyone be homeless to build a few pretty houses”