We're talking brutalism in Detroit. In architectural speak, that means, essentially, raw concrete. And Detroit has its fair share.
Excerpt from
One More Spoke:
As an architectural term, Brutalism could have just as easily been
called rawism or roughism, possibly even dry champagnism in an ideal, if
twisted, coinage world. But the English architectural couple of Alison
and Peter Smithson took Le Corbusier's, and in fact all the
French-speaking world's, term for "raw concrete",
béton brut, and
came up with Brutalism. It's an apt name for this unrefined offshoot
of modernism which took hold in the 1960s and 70s. Although often
ignored, Detroit didn't miss out on its share of the style.
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