Architecture Terrible

Architecture terrible, literally architecture which evokes terror, was a style advocated by the French architect Jacques-Francois Blondel in his nine volume treatise Cours d architecture, published between 1771 and 1777. Blondel promoted the style for the exterior of prisons, arguing that the form of a building should proclaim its function and serve as a deterrent, achieving a repulsive heaviness that would announce the confined lives held inside and the force needed to hold them. London s second Newgate Prison, built between 1768 and 1775, is an example, with reinforced walls almost without windows, deliberate inelegance, and symbolism such as carved chains over its entrances designed to instill terror in onlookers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/