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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...1950s and 1960s was a modernist boomtown. Croesan oil wealth and a powerful military dictatorship together created massive urban planning projects, built in the modernist style both by renowned American architects, like Philip Johnson, and South American practitioners of the style. The city was once called “pedacito del cielo”—a little piece of heaven. This is not just a nickname, but also seems to refer to the unfulfilled dream of a modernist utopia. Now, slums surround many of the geometric concrete surfaces and glass curtain walls of the mid-century expansion.Alessandro Balteo...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Little Piece of Balteo Yazbeck | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

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