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August 20, 2013

Salvador: Inauguration of Centro da Cidade

Salvador de Bahia is an undiscovered jewel within a vast country, and the Centro da Cidade cultural center will attempt to change that by providing a high-tech interactive presentation of Bahian culture material and immaterial.

July 31, 2013

Inauguration of a Luthier Workshop in the Andean Baroque Route

On July 19, 2013, the Peruvian town of Huaro launched a three-year workshop: Escuela-Taller de Lutería Marcela Temple de Pérez de Cuéllar, named in honor of the late founder and leader of World Monuments Fund Peru. This workshop is the first of its kind in Peru, and will train 20 students from the local community in the art of handcrafting and restoring string instruments.

July 26, 2013

El gran sueño de una gran mujer

Mi trabajo como periodista especializado en recorrer el Perú, y con ojo ingenuo descubrir matices por mil en aquellos territorios donde se sintetizan la naturaleza, la historia y la cultura viva –territorios que podrían ser la principal fuente de riqueza y desarrollo para nuestro país, mediante adecuadas puestas en valor- ese trabajo me lleva a una conclusión paradójica.

July 26, 2013

The Grand Dream of a Grand Woman

My work as a journalist specialized in traveling throughout Peru, and with a candid eye discovering nuances by the thousand in those regions that blend nature, history and living culture – regions that could be the main source of wealth and development for our country, given adequate restoration –this work leads me to a paradoxical conclusion. I’ve seen so very much in thirteen years of traveling professionally, to this place and that, however, I find that I have come to know an area the size of an ocean, but barely a millimeter in depth.

July 22, 2013

Notes on the Second Workshop on Disaster Risk Management for World Heritage in the Caribbean

Between May 13 and 17, two representatives of the Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua, a WMF project, participated in the Second Workshop on Disaster Risk Management for World Heritage in the Caribbean. The workshop, held in Havana, Cuba, was organized by the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.

July 15, 2013

Numancia Resists an Urban Development Siege

The archaeological site of Numancia, a 2010 Watch site, recently overcame a siege of urban development proposals, with the threat of construction of a new 120-hectare industrial park and 50-meter-high concrete towers.

July 10, 2013

L’Education du Regard—Archifest 2013

In early 2013, Etienne Telemaque, a Haitian architect and urban planner living in New York, approached WMF to help with an exhibit and lecture about Haitian architecture he was planning at the Queens Museum of Art.

July 02, 2013

Drawn Together a Huge Success in the UK

Drawn Together is a WMF Britain initiative to cultivate care for historic environments by engaging children.

July 02, 2013

The Whitney Studio at the New York Studio School

While studying art in Paris in 1906, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney met an expatriate artist very much like herself—Robert Winthrop Chanler. They were both aristocrats, born and bred into New York high society at a time when their every movement, social interaction, and correspondence was carefully scrutinized in magazines and newspapers. Both were fleeing that life, finding solace in the Paris art scene and the bohemians who orbited it.

June 06, 2013

An Urban Century: Loss of Identity in La Plata

Demographic changes across the globe indicate that we are living in an “Urban Century.” It is estimated that by 2020, 60% of the world population will live in cities. According to the latest census, 89% of Argentina’s population lives in urban areas. While it may seem insurmountable to stop the rapid development of cities, their histories do not have to be destroyed in the process.

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