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>UW is like one of those 1960's, concrete block kind of Soviet Utilitarian places

The way I came to appreciate the aesthetic of UW was to realize it is a school of the 20th and 21st centuries, whereas the Ivies are schools of the 18th and 19th centuries.

When you think of an abstract university setting, ‘the future’ looks like UW.

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It's an ugly pile of concrete, I think the term is 'brutalist'.

During the mid 20th century there was a lot of that going on.

Most 'modern' designs are rubbish, but at least what they make today is much more interesting, for the most part.

> During the mid 20th century there was a lot of that going on.

In the 1970s, students at Cal State LA called it Cal Concrete.

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