AFP reports for Pagina Siete: Ana Palza will be accompanied by the well-known Aymara dressmaker Bertha Acarapi and other seamstresses. Bolivia will arrive at “Geometries of the South: From Mexico to Patagonia”, an exhibition of the Cartier Foundation that will be inaugurated next Sunday in Paris, hand in hand with the Chola fashion, typical clothes…
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These Vibrant, Futuristic Mansions Are Popping Up in Bolivia
Laurence Blair writes for National Geographic: These Vibrant, Futuristic Mansions Are Popping Up in Bolivia Known as the “King of Andean Architecture,” Freddy Mamani’s colorful designs are changing El Alto and inspiring other architects. Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani’s colorful designs are changing the face of El Alto. PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK BALLÓN The air is thin in…
Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city
Harriet Mallinson reports for MailOnLine and AFP: Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city Fluorescent-coloured walls tower for up to seven stories at an altitude of 13,000ft in the city of El Alto Called ‘cholets’ by the locals they were built by…
High Aspirations: Freddy Mamani and his cholets
From The New Yorker: High Aspirations Photographs by PETER GRANSER Introduction by JUDITH THURMAN The Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre doesn’t have an office, use a computer, or draw formal blueprints. He sketches his plans on a wall or transmits them orally to his associates. Since 2005, Mamani and his firm have completed sixty projects…
Bolivian Thoughts 