I don't understand why anyone would do it. Cost. You don't have to pay for and manage pesky craftsmen with their finicky details. Fabricate some concrete slabs

I don't understand why anyone would do it. Cost. You don't have to pay for and manage pesky craftsmen with their finicky details. Fabricate some concrete slabs in a factory, ship them to site and hoist them into place and you're done. At the very least the art-deco guys tried to find some compromise with form, and Bauhaus did emphasise function at all costs. Brutalism for its own sake reminds me of the dudes who hear the trope "nice guys finish last" and then go about acting the scoundrel just cause they think the opposite might be true. Maybe they get a few "wins" here and there but romantically, and to all practical intents and purposes it's a dead end.