I have a question for people familiar with architecture.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

There was sort of a style of architecture popular back in the seventies. Maybe late sixties. It had a lot of straight vertical lines, exposed molded concrete. Vaguely inspired by art deco, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Usually came with clumsy furniture that looked uncomfortable but often wasn't. Generally these buildings if they still exist are often eye sores, yet can be fairly charming once you get used to them. I guess the most likely place you'll find them nowadays is on college campuses.

Is there a name for that style?

[bananas]

1. You mean something like this?

"Why Modernist Architecture is Evil"
http://dogmatics.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/why-modernist-architecture-is-evil/
http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ss/peicornell.htm

[Monk06]

7. Or like this

[wickerwoman]

2. Brutalist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalism

[miscsoc]

5. That was my first thought too

I am fond of that style. The general public seem to consider those buildings eyesores though. Partic since exposed concrete stains easily, which I think looks nice, but a lot of other people think looks ugly.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. perhaps, postmodern...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_architecture

Postmodern architecture was an international style whose first examples are generally cited as being from the 1950s, but which did not become a movement until the late 1970s<1> and continues to influence present-day architecture. Postmodernity in architecture is generally thought to be heralded by the return of "wit, ornament and reference" to architecture in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. As with many cultural movements, some of postmodernism's most pronounced and visible ideas can be seen in architecture. The functional and formalized shapes and spaces of the modernist movement are replaced by unapologetically diverse aesthetics: styles collide, form is adopted for its own sake, and new ways of viewing familiar styles and space abound.
One popular building style of postmodernist style architecture is the use of pent roofing in buildings, where roofs are slanted at an even angle from one wall to the other. Peaked roofing however, as seen on most traditional single-family homes, is an example of Modernist Architecture.
Transitional examples of postmodern architecture are Michael Graves' Portland Building in Portland, Oregon and Philip Johnson's Sony Building (originally AT&T Building) in New York City, which borrows elements and references from the past and reintroduces color and symbolism to architecture. A prime example of inspiration for postmodern architecture lies along the Las Vegas Strip, which was studied by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in their 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas celebrating the strip's ordinary and common architecture.
Postmodern architecture has also been described as "neo-eclectic", where reference and ornament have returned to the facade, replacing the aggressively unornamented modern styles. This eclecticism is often combined with the use of non-orthogonal angles and unusual surfaces, most famously in the State Gallery of Stuttgart (New wing of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart) and the Piazza d'Italia by Charles Moore. The Scottish Parliament buildings in Edinburgh have also been cited as being of postmodern vogue.

[Doc_Technical]

4. Eichler homes?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=1&oq=eichler&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS370US370&q=eichler+homes

[gmoney]

6. Lego?

[datasuspect]

8. like shit inspired by mies van der rohe?

i think they call it residential institutional.

[Dr Morbius]

9. Now, that's a stretch.

The modernist architecture of the post-Bauhaus era, embraced by Soviet communism, was the architecture of le Corbusier. It was logical and smartly designed, but inhuman. Tiny kitchenettes, small bathrooms, cheap materials meant all that post-WWI architecture throughout Europe didn't last. "Residential institutional;" good way to put it.

Mies van der Rohe, however, was a generation later. His work is characterized by simple lines and open spaces, reminiscent of modernist and postmodernist architecture, but Mies used the finest materials available. He made a point of teaching that at IIT in Chicago, when he taught architecture here.

Here is his legendary Barcelona house:

He did this building in Chicago:


In short, those ugly buildings of Soviet Russia were nothing at all like the stuff by Mies van der Rohe. His legacy is not all wonderful, though: almost all those glass-sheathed skyscrapers ubiquitous to our cities owe something to Mies van der Rohe.

[kwassa]

10. Brutalism is the style

Not inspired by art deco.

or Frank, really.

Boston City Hall is a good example.