John Hayes, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, has launched a “bloody battle” against a “cult of ugliness” in architecture: “the overwhelming majority of public architecture built during my lifetime is aesthetically worthless, simply because it is ugly.”... I too hated Modernism when young, born into the same 1980s blind-spot that Hayes still inhabits. My conversion to Brutalism has been gradual. As I have researched it I have come to see how far it is from Hayes’s caricature of it as mechanistic and aesthetically indifferent.
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