Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Americas


We were now in a more generic urban landscape that one might find anywhere in Latin America very different from the grandious cosmopolitan architecture of Buenos Aires. Dusty streets dominated by telegraph poles and lowrise buildings supporting large signs, water towers and unidentifiable steel paraphenalia all intricately meshed together by an array of dangerous cables. Not a colonial building in sight.
I liked it. One detail that caught my eye is how most of the typography of shop signs is hand painted with a precise craft that I´m sure is a thing of the past in England.

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