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Freddy Mamani Building in El Alto , Bolivia

Started by chicar, March 25, 2019, 11:18:20 PM

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chicar

The word pagan came from paganus , who mean peasant . Its was a way to significate than christianism was the religion of the elite and paganism the one of the savage worker class.

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von Corax

Quote from: chicar on March 25, 2019, 11:18:20 PM
( Post here because there no South American section)
No, I think this is the place for architecture. I'd like to keep North America primarily for event announcements and reports.

I do need to do some housecleaning, though.

In any case, wonderful building.
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J. Wilhelm

Some commenter in that thread wrote Art Déco.

chicar

The word pagan came from paganus , who mean peasant . Its was a way to significate than christianism was the religion of the elite and paganism the one of the savage worker class.

''Trickster shows us how we trick OURSELVES. Her rampant curiosity backfires, but, then, something NEW is discovered (though usually not what She expected)! This is where creativity comes from—experiment, do something different, maybe even something forbidden, and voila! A breakthrough occurs! Ha! Ha! We are released! The world is created anew! Do something backwards, break your own traditions, the barrier breaks; destroy the world as you know it, let the new in.''
Extract of the Dreamflesh article ''Path of The Sacred Clown''

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RJBowman



Very deco-like, but lacking the grace of the best deco. I don't like that the theme ends at the top of the first floor; it's like something was stacked on top of something else.

J. Wilhelm

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Quote from: RJBowman on March 28, 2019, 04:46:55 PM


Very deco-like, but lacking the grace of the best deco. I don't like that the theme ends at the top of the first floor; it's like something was stacked on top of something else.

It does look more like a facade to me. Built over an existing structure. The underlying building looks more to me like traditional small-town architecture in Latin America.

One has to consider the location. People may be misinterpreting the architect's intent when calling it Art Deco. El Alto may be Bolivia's second largest city, but at just short of a million people it is hardly the largest city in Latin America. Its roots are more Native than European, and the economic level of the country and the city is radically different from, say, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The creator calls his buildings "Cholets" a pormanteau of the words Chalet and Cholo, a once derogatory South American term for indigenous people. Here's an interesting article on El Alto, Bolivia:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/oct/17/el-alto-bolivia-architecture-culture-la-paz


A "Cholet" in El Alto, Bolivia



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J. Wilhelm

Quote from: Banfili on March 28, 2019, 09:44:02 PM
I rather like both buildings!

Reading the article I posted above, it does look that the intent was to be 100% Aymara Native, rather than a copy of Art Deco. But all things being equal I can't see anyone in this planet isolated enough to not have been influenced by Art Deco in some way.

Mamani is in fact an Aymara Native himself. He's borrowed the aethetics from his cultural background, and it does look like an alternate Art Deco. It's a very interesting exercise when one postulates what an alternate reality culture or a civilisation far away on another planet would develop in lieu of Victorian and Art Deco aesthetics.  It reminds me of the aesthetics of a Japanese Anime called "Wings of Honneamise," a Space Age Cold War tale that takes place in another planet dominated by two large countries hostile to one another. The flavor of the aesthetics were clearly Asian, but they re-imagined a Diesel/Space Age society similar to that during our Cold War Era.