Bogotá, Through the Lens of Leo Matiz

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Bogotá. Image © Archivo de Bogotá

Bogota's modernization between 1940 and 1970 is featured in a wide array of books, magazines, and photo albums, as well as in the city's own public and private archives. Every one of these sources reveals a deliberate, as well as critical, approximation of how modern architecture reconfigured the city's center and brought together the new buildings and urban space with the already existing cityscape.

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Cite: Mayorga-Fontana Arquitectos + Margarita Roa. "Bogotá, Through the Lens of Leo Matiz" [Bogotá, según la fotografía de Leo Matiz] 21 Oct 2018. ArchDaily. (Trans. Johnson, Maggie) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/904262/bogota-through-the-lens-of-leo-matiz> ISSN 0719-8884

“Vendedor de periódico” shows a newspaper and magazine stand on a sidewalk in Bogotá, 1962. Photo by Leo Matiz.. Image via Library of Congress

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