Soviet brutalist architecture: beyond the genre's striking image

The architecture faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Minsk - example of Soviet brutalist architecture.

The curious thing about Soviet brutalist architecture is that it is incredibly rich in profoundly photogenic buildings that appear simultaneously utopian in their conception and intent and distinctly dystopian in their dilapidated states of disrepair.

Ministry of Highways and Transportation, 1979, Tbilisi, Georgia, shot by photographer Simona Rota; as seen at the 2012 Vienna exhibition 'Soviet Modernism 1955-1991: Unknown Stories' (Image credit: TBC)