PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 18 hours agoWhy do schools look like prisons and are there any countries where they don't?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down14
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareWhy do schools look like prisons and are there any countries where they don't?PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 18 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-210 hours agoIt’s cheap to build and maintain. It just gets called “institutional architecture” sometimes. Some of the schools I went to were architecturally interesting, but you bet there was still a lot of cinderblock, steel and harsh lighting. Hospitals in my Canadian province often have the same vibe, although they start getting into that communist architecture feeling a bit, too.
minus-squarecomfy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 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)
It’s cheap to build and maintain. It just gets called “institutional architecture” sometimes.
Some of the schools I went to were architecturally interesting, but you bet there was still a lot of cinderblock, steel and harsh lighting.
Hospitals in my Canadian province often have the same vibe, although they start getting into that communist architecture feeling a bit, too.
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)