Salón de eventos, [Event hall]

This is a new and peculiar representation registered in the Bolivian altiplano. El Alto is one of the youngest cities in Bolivia and its inhabitants, who come from the countryside, keep their communal activities and rituals. The event halls multiply and create the space for baptisms, weddings, birthdays, as well as farmers assemblies, union meetings, workshops, seminars and dance lessons.
One of the most prominent architects in El Alto is Freddy Mamani Silvestre (1971). In his youth, he was a bricklayer and constructor; later he studied engineering and architecture. At work, he felt that the western aesthetic lines did not represent him, so he started to attempt a personal way to design, which later reaffirmed combining ancestral, baroque, contemporary, local and global aspects, in a style that is internationally known as “Andean Architecture”.
Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2019-2020 Catalogue