My understanding is Brutalism arose when building codes still had limits on window size and proportion of glass vs other materials on the facades of large build

My understanding is Brutalism arose when building codes still had limits on window size and proportion of glass vs other materials on the facades of large buildings. This prevented the glass curtain towers that became popular later until codes changed. Brutalism embraced this constraint as well as the most expedient materials for building skyscrapers. Intellectually and aesthetically I like this choice of honesty in reflecting materials personally. Where Brutalism failed is similar to other grand modernist projects: it failed to engage properly at the human scale, creating environments that look striking, but that also read to most people as cold and alienating. In practical terms this sort of grand architecture usually fails to anticipate how humans will actually use the spaces, leading to spaces that are opposed to humans organic behaviors. All that said, when Brutalism is tempered with empathy, and combined with interior design that both features and softens its starkness, I quite like it. The old library in my home town was brutalist. This is the exterior: https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8b7a56ab55fbd5227b8d5c04be176e56?rik=T6APBDIYVCGavw&riu=http%3a%2f%2fmedia.bizj.us%2fview%2fimg%2f4950251%2fwichitapubliclibrary1*1200xx2250-1266-0-117.jpg&ehk=qFNtfskRbvqCyjHJf%2fBxXoPQ6oT%2bk%2bSR866IY5UM7%2bM%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0 https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8b7a56ab55fbd5227b8d5c04be176e56... Unfortunately there's no photos online of the old interior, but it did a good job of humanizing the starkness. On the other hand, the exterior also showed the flaws of brutalism, having wide empty featureless grass plains that I never once saw anyone use for relaxation, a picnic, etc, in two decades of living in that town.