>But why do the students of architecture prefer brutalism? It's probably some combination of the subculture effect (i.e., subcultures tend to develop their own

>But why do the students of architecture prefer brutalism? It's probably some combination of the subculture effect (i.e., subcultures tend to develop their own in-group aesthetics) and as a functional shibboleth (i.e., being able to "appreciate" things average people don't has an in-group signalling function).