To the naked eye, it is hard not to marvel at the new Terminal 1 in comparison to its predecessor, but how experts view it might be different than the average Joe.

The public was recently offered their first view of the terminal ahead of its opening next week. Daniela Deutsch, the dean of architecture at downtown’s NewSchool of Architecture & Design, came to the event with The San Diego Union-Tribune to give her initial thoughts.

The old Terminal 1 had plenty of architectural praise and criticism over the years . Completed in 1967, the brutalist design was an example of trends at the time and celebrated by the San Diego Union for its “functional beauty.” Brutalist architecture sharply fell out of favor in modern times and might provide a warning: How San Diegans view the new Termin

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