As I explained when we began the Brooks Buderus archive, one thing I have noticed while scanning the images is that Antigua Guatemala has not changed very much in the last 50 years in same cases, and quite a lot in some aspects. This particular townhouse for instance, looks exactly the same now as it … Read more
Here’s another instalment from the Brooks Buderus archive. In this case, even the caption was written by mister Buderus in the 80’s: The La Merced Church was completed in 1767 and withstood the 1773 earthquake with little damage. It is used today even though some work is still being done after the 1976 quake. The … Read more
Today we begin a new section which I am calling Sentimental Saturdays in which I will share photographs from the Brooks Buderus archive. A few months ago I came into several hundred slides taken by architect Brooks Buderus in the 70s and 80s in Antigua Guatemala and other cities around Guatemala, Honduras and Chiapas, Mexico. … Read more