The Aesthetics Of Security

Slate presents a slide show demonstrating various aesthetics of security, from Wurster Hall at U.C. Berkeley to U.S. embassies abroad.

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September 11, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Americans have often been a whole lot less prepared for attacks from within and without, and haven't usually known how to respond architecturally to violence of any sort. After the campus protests of the 1960s, universities traded expansive glass façades for buildings with windows no bigger than peepholes. That reaction coincided with an architectural movement known as Brutalism, which meant that nearly a decade of campus architecture featured scowling, fortresslike buildings."

Thanks to ArchNewsNow.com

FULL STORY: The Aesthetics of Security: A Slide Show

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 in Slate

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