If someone insists that the solution to the residents of the new brutalist tower block wanting to kill themselves is to educate them on the finer points of architectural theory, then you have a civic problem.
Is this hyperbole, or is people committing suicide because of ugly architecture actually a thing? Citation Needed.
Brutalist architecture & housing projects have been blamed, at least since Jacob’s Life and Death, for the disintegration of neighborhoods into ghettos and blighted areas. So I think the claim seems plausible.
Almost certainly hyperbole, but architects—especially of that era—do have a habit of making surprisingly grandiose estimates of their work’s social effects.
Of course, it’s unlikely that any successful architect not working in set design for vampire movies would deliberately set out to depress people into suicide.
Is this hyperbole, or is people committing suicide because of ugly architecture actually a thing? Citation Needed.
Brutalist architecture & housing projects have been blamed, at least since Jacob’s Life and Death, for the disintegration of neighborhoods into ghettos and blighted areas. So I think the claim seems plausible.
Almost certainly hyperbole, but architects—especially of that era—do have a habit of making surprisingly grandiose estimates of their work’s social effects.
Of course, it’s unlikely that any successful architect not working in set design for vampire movies would deliberately set out to depress people into suicide.