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Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, San Jose, Costa Rica Alberto Linner

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/north-via-south-mesoamerican-brutalism

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Alberto Linner 

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Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social

San Jose, Costa Rica

Architect: Alberto Linner

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/north-via-south-mesoamerican-brutalism#slide_ss_0=1

Catagory: Suprematism / Brutalist movement

“This architectural style was developed after a world weary of war dropped the pretenses of beauty from the façades of government buildings and went all in on a new kind of populist expression of power. In Central America, as elsewhere, the new style dovetailed neatly with a fledgling socialist movement and an explosion of low-cost postwar growth. Today, Brutalism has more critics than admirers, but there is something to be said for its play of repetitive shapes, offset angles, and soaring geometrics. Granted, this is probably not what most tourists are searching for when they visit Central America, but since Magda is an architectural photographer and we are both fans of these bold, clean architectural declarations, we went out of our way to find them. “ - Jessie Wender