Gregory Delaney, clinical assistant professor Department of Architecture Cats and brutalist architecture: Who knew the two were a perfect pair? UB urban design graduate students and their professors have generated a fanatical following through an Instagram page, called Cats of Brutalism, that ties the hard edges of brutalist architecture with soft, fuzzy, super-scaled cats. Launched by UB architecture master’s students Emily Battaglia, Madelaine Ong and Michaela Senay in collaboration with the studio’s professors, Gregory Delaney and Brett Doster, the playful account — described as “Your daily dose of cats and concrete” — has a larger purpose: to raise awareness of brutalism, the often misunderstood and under-loved period of mid-to-late-20th century architecture, while promoting adoptable cats.