His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.
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On the tiny island of Martha's Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes thr...
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Known for his bold, abstract and stark white buildings, American architect Richard Meier now takes o...
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School was a significant landmark in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orlea...
In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, Cal...
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A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geograph...
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore travels in the footsteps of Louis Kahn to discover how t...
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Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...