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It's cheap to build and maintain. It just gets called "institutional architecture" sometimes.
Some of the schools I went to were architecturally interesting, but you bet there was still a lot of cinderblock, steel and harsh lighting.
Hospitals in my Canadian province often have the same vibe, although they start getting into that communist architecture feeling a bit, too.
I'm guessing you're talking about the post-WWII low-cost housing Khrushchevka ("commieblocks"), Soviet modernism, or the related Brutalist concrete architecture? (Because in context I assume it's not constructivist, socialist classicism, or non-Soviet styles from around the world)