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Rogelio Salmona (1927–2007) was a Colombian architect who trained under Le Corbusier in Paris before returning to Bogotá, where he developed a distinctive regionalist modernism rooted in the use of brick, water, and urban space as poetic architectural materials. His Torres del Parque residential complex and Virgilio Barco Library are celebrated masterworks of Latin American architecture that elegantly synthesize Corbusian rigour with Colombian cultural identity.
Few architectural movements provoke such strong and contradictory reactions as Brutalism. To some, it represents the cold, authoritarian face of modern architecture: heavy, grey, and hostile. To others, it is…
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Torres del Parque, designed by Rogelio Salmona and completed between 1964 and 1970, is one of the most iconic examples of 20th-century Latin American architecture. Situated in the heart of…
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