What brutalist architecture can teach us about web3 (featuring Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson) ⬇️🧵:

3/ Erickson’s Simon Fraser University wasn’t built to impress, it was built to include with concrete terraces open to sky and student.

That’s the Web3 spirit:
→ Permissionless access
→ Decentralized knowledge
→ No elites, just nodes (supposedly)

2/  “Architecture, as in life, is not a question of the obvious but the mysterious.” -Arthur Erickson

Brutalism embraced the mystery of structure. Concrete left exposed, no lies, no façades.

Web3 is similar:
→ Transparent code
→ Public ledgers

1/ Brutalism wasn’t just a style, it was an ideology.

Raw and deeply idealistic. Arthur Erickson, Canada’s concrete poet, believed in designing for people, not power.

While I’m currently admiring Ericksons work, let’s talk about how brutalism and Web3 speak a similar language..