As a child of the 70s I was raised with brutalist architecture around me. Even the hospital I was born in was a brutalist building. You can read a lot about the goals of this kind of architecture as well as urban planning from this time. Not all of these goals have failed even if we have to cope with a lot of the negativies of that area, such as the car centric city.
Nevertheless one can find beauty in the buildings of this architecture direction...