Why I Changed My Mind About Concrete (BECOMING ARTSY 307)

In this episode of Becoming Artsy, Jessie joins up with Getty’s Conserving Modern Architecture course to learn all about concrete and brutalism. Along with an international roster of modern heritage professionals, she visits a couple of Southern California landmarks (including the Salk Institute and University of California San Diego) to learn about the importance of conserving concrete. Jessie also tags along on a concrete conservation day at the Getty Villa, and sits in on some course lectures at the Getty Center!
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[@MilesLabrador]

Let's gooooo UCSD represent! My favorite brutalist building on campus is probably the Applied Physics and Mathematics especially when it had the vines growing all over it.

[@teddysnyder]

Jessie, Sydney Opera House is built with precast concrete. Not so brutal, but definitely beautiful concrete

[@wcoasttigger]

Thanks for these. Great!!

[@gettytrust]

Thank you for watching! 🥰

[@cut--]

The Guggenheim by Frank Lloyd Wright is made of concrete so we're all good.

[@VanRuker]

Think again: it requires sand, not any kind.

[@gettytrust]

Hi Van, Jessie here. I'm not sure I understand the comment, but happy to hear you out!

[@tpower1912]

This is called becoming institutionalised. A kind of Stockholm syndrome.

[@gettytrust]

😅