X-ray of a Guatemalan House
This is the shot of a Guatemalan house at the very early stages of construction. I know this is not what you …
Lenten Carpets of Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Alfombra procesional for processional carpet. One of the aspects I really enjoy of the …
Door or Window
What do you think this is, a window or a door? In Guatemalan Spanish with call these wood logs “lepa” (lehpah me …
Black and White of Escuela de Cristo, aka Parroquia Nuestra Señora de los Remedios
One more entry on our black and white series of the churches in and around Antigua Guatemala at night. This is the …
Theme Day: Men at Work
Architecture arose from man’s necessity to shelter from the environment. First, he used the caves where he left registered scenes from his daily life, to then build, with the materials found in nature, his home. As humankind organized socially and the jobs became specialties, the first masons appeared and transformed the natural materials such stone and wood, and invented others like adobes and bricks from clay. (fragment from La mano de obra en la arquitectura from JM Magaña in Recrearte Magazine, page 8, available in Spanish as a PDF download)
How much would you pay for this old house?
Buying a house in Antigua is a proposition beyond the economic means of most Guatemalans, sometimes, even so for foreigners. On June …