Discussion AudienceAlienatingEra / RealLife

Whilst YMMV on the style itself, the entry on Brutalism gets a lot of things factually wrong (or implies things that are factually wrong). Brutalism (and what we refer to as modern architecture more generally) both originated in the West and became established there a good couple of decades earlier than it did in the Eastern bloc. Many of its founders and proponents were socialists, but they were Western Europeans like Le Corbusier and Gropius. Furthermore (as someone has already pointed out in the entry), Stalin himself was far from enamoured of modern architecture and preferred his own brand of kitsch ornateness (cf. Warsaw's "Palace of Culture"): brutalism only became widespread in the Eastern bloc *after* Stalin died. So to describe the preponderance of Brutalism in the West as a kind of Stalinist infiltration is pretty much the *opposite* of what happened - it was a Western innovation that went on to be even more widely adopted in the East.

Not too sure if the bit I added to the Windows example should be there, but felt it relevant to point out that not everybody's Windows experience was that great at all in the early days. Maybe I'm biased since Win98 was the first Windows version I had at home full stop (having used Acorns before that) but I do recall my Win98 usage being constantly plagued by errors. Probably the "Windows begins in cycles" actually is like a cosine wave offset by a quarter-cycle- starting at zero and getting worse before it got better.

Also not sure where Win95 would fit in, as in my estimation it was the beginning of the now-classic Windows desktop environment and was a huge improvement over Win3.1.