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A Brutalist Take on UH's Agnes Arnold Hall: Burn the Building to the Ground

A Brutalist Take on UH's Agnes Arnold Hall: Burn the Building to the Ground

(Seriously, this place has to go)

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Mar 30, 2023
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This is the story of an architectural movement, a building, and a university. It is not a happy story.

Brutalism is a form of modernist architecture that came to the forefront in Europe following World War II. The style then spread into Eastern Bloc Communist countries and the Soviet Union and in many ways, many people flash on buildings they believe to …

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