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The Dominican based Archivos de Arquitectura Antillana magazine, as the name suggest, is about Caribbean architecture - with emphasis on Dominican architecutre for obvious reasons - has published a well detailed set of documents produced by ISPAN concerning Haiti's architectural patrimony that was affected by the earthquake. I know of the loss of the public buildings such as the Palace and the Episcopal Cathedral - which had some of the greatest murals from Haiti's premier artists.... but the reports are that most of the Gingerbread (Victorian?) houses - which are still to be found both in PauP and - primarily- in Jacmel, survived very well...... Something about the wood construction!! which swayed!! (I was pleased by this news since all the Europeans that I know have nothing but contempt for all our wooden homes in the US!!) |
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