Brutalism in Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic embraced concrete modernism in the decades after Trujillo, using it for major national institutions. The Banco Central de la República Dominicana (1978) in Santo Domingo, designed by Rafael Calventi, is the country's clearest brutalist statement, a strong composition of exposed concrete volumes by an architect who had worked with Marcel Breuer.

In Higüey, the French architects André-Jacques Dunoyer de Segonzac and Pierre Dupré won the competition for the Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia (1971), a pilgrimage church whose parabolic concrete arch rises above the plain like a gateway.