A Dominican architect has been awarded the “Emerging Architect of 2018” given by the International Design Awards (IDA) of Los Angeles, California.
The winner is Eric Alexander Batista Pérez. He won the Gold Award in the category of Symbolic Monuments and Structures for his design of the Taino Interpretation Center in the southwestern city of San Juan de la Maguana. He was competing against around 4,000 other projects from 90 countries.
Architect Batista explained that when he was in his fourth year of studying architecture, he visited the original monument that was in disrepair and abandoned and hence he redesigned it as his graduate thesis from the PUCMM School of Architecture in Santiago.
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Listin Diario
20 March 2019