Jorge Ivan Giraldo

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Colombia has proposed Salamina to be study for the Unsco as a new site, but they changed and now it is part of a coffee cultural landscape which is great, but the town of Salamina is not going to be a site itself, which is very sad, because it is great, unique and represent the best of a proces in which the country was looking for differents samples (France, England etc). It is a town on the top of the Andes, green and fertil. It is a town product of a colonization proces. It has been made for people of south Antioquia, looking for oportunities, so it was not a country's effort because people themselves had made and they buit cities as the only way they had know, with the spaniard grid. The grid was made to be in a flat enviroment, and what they found was the most step Andes. As a result, the neurotic grid become something else. Whit the new industry of the coffee, people had brought from France the "art Noveau" influence, and with the old spaniard construction sistem, the city has became a laboratory of architecture.....It is one of the most beautifull towns ever seen, at the levels of Orvieto, in Italy.

My most impressive site: San Marcos in Venice, and Mexico city.

My proposal for a new site: Salamina, a small town in the midle of Colombia

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About Jorge Ivan Giraldo

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Reviews by Jorge Ivan Giraldo

Oaxaca and Monte Alban by Els Slots

Oaxaca and Monte Alban (Inscribed)

Oaxaca and Monte Alban

Oaxaca mermerize me because of its great churches. The catedral, with the tipical sismic key, the square facade and its baroche ornamentation. The Santo Domingo church is an amazing building …

Keep reading Jorge Iva… 20/04/08
Querétaro by Els Slots

Querétaro (Inscribed)

Querétaro

Queretaro, beautifull city. When you talk about Queretaro, you are talking about one style. The baroche of Queretaro is different from others...maybe more exquisite, tasteful and deeper. Queretaro had been …

Keep reading Jorge Iva… 27/03/06
Puebla by Els Slots

Puebla (Inscribed)

Puebla

Puebla, a baroche town. But the baroche has a different meaning overthere, because it is not anymore an academic style, it is a laboratory of the style, ussing arabs, aztecs …

Keep reading Jorge Iva… 01/05/05