True, Kafkaesque would imply something like you get on the elevator to floor 5 and the 5th floor is labeled 6. You take the stairs down two flights to floor 5, skipping floor R. You go to the door labeled for the office you want and they tell you the office you seek is actually in a different building, which they do not know the address to, and you must now wait for the elevator which has stopped running until an hour from now because reasons and the stairs do not let you back to ground level.

I also likes the misuse of “distempered dogs”. I actually like “incorrect” words being used - it makes writing far more friendly and sometimes allows me to feel invalidly superior. Intentionally misabusing words is a personal hobby, copied from the best speaker of English that I know.

Indeed, looks like the word is a bit misplaced here.

Some brutalist buildings do instil the same sense of cold, surreal, and inhuman qualities Kafka does with his writing. Insurmountable oppression.

Also, Kafkas protagonists are often stripped of any sense of intimacy. Laid bare, much like the naked concrete and straight lines seen in brutalist architecture.

So I do see where OP could be coming from. Then again, LA is not able to drown me in dread the same way a dreary Soviet administration building does.

I think "brutalist architecture" would be a better description.