Hi everybody, this is Scott Satt. I just returned from watching the movie The Brutalist,

starring Adrian Brody and Guy Pearce.

I very much appreciate Adrian Brody as an actor, and Guy Pearce has historically been one of my favorite actors,

a part of which is because of his amazing performance and

Priscilla Queen of the Desert for many years ago. I would highly recommend you watch that

movie. Of course, some of his political positions turn out to not be in line with what I might consider to be appropriate,

but we need to separate apparently the art from the political positions of the artist.

So there you go.

So my quick thoughts on the brood list, it turns out to be a fictional story. I actually

went in thinking that it might be a biopic of, you know, the founder or pioneer of brutalism.

For those of you don't know, brutalism is truly a brutal, brutally ugly architecture.

It's, you know, it's imagine the projects in various cities or, you know,

the buildings behind the Soviet Union prior to the, you know, the buildings behind the Soviet Union prior to the breaking down of the Soviet Union

or all of the ugly concrete buildings that you might see.

I mean, there's a very famous case of it in Toronto, but there are many.

My own home university, Concordia, has a central building that would certainly belong to the brutalist movement.

Now, I wanted to contrast this, because the brutalist movement is actually the antithesis of biophilic architecture.

And here's a perfect demonstration of a book that I got for you.

This is from my personal library.

So biophilia is a term that was introduced by E.O. Wilson, the late Harvard biologist, entomologist.

Biophilia refers to innate love of nature. And so evolutionary architecture, which uses biophilic design, basically argues that there are certain goals that we should seek to

optimize when we are creating architectural designs that invoke our love of nature.

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