Modernist architecture (especially Brutalism) certainly failed, because it abandoned considerations of usability and was often deliberately hostile. You end up with car parks that look amazing in carefully posed photos, but have to be demolished not only because the fabric is rotting, but the building is such a despair magnet that people are regularly committing suicide from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorn_Centre

Art doesn't really have to submit to questions of "usability".