PT RR - Surprise Group * August '24

 These cards arrived quite fast, even the uruguaian card.

 

 

On the list of architects with works classified as a World Heritage Sites, one will find the name of Eladio Dieste (1917-2000), an Uruguayan engineer and architect who made his reputation by building silos, factories, markets and churches, considered as a top name of Latin American architecture. 

St Peter's Church of Durazno is one of his works but not the church on the UNESCO list. The Church of Atlántida is one of his most recognized works in Uruguay and was added to the WHS list in 2021.

Looking at other works of Dieste, and looking at this facade, I would say that this church has nothing to do with his style. This is explained because Dieste was responsible for the church rebuilding project after being destroyed by a fire in 1967. Although several neo-Romanic and neo-renaissance elements of the original architecture were recovered, the interior of the church as well as its ceiling, had to be rebuilt. For this reconstruction then the Engineer Eladio Dieste would then be invited. This project provided for the maintenance of the original outer facade, but the total reconstruction of its interior and ceiling in reinforced brick, a constructive technique developed by the Dieste itself. 

The postcard was sent by Atalí.

 

I was pretty sure about Boticas location but still had to confirm it. Boticas is a town in northern Portugal and that's pretty much all I know about it. The old stone houses on the card are the tourim office, the perfect place to learn more about the town. 

The card was sent by Eric.

Tiago sent me a card depicting a long-lost  profession, water carrier. Before the advent of centralized water supply systems, water carriers collected water from a source (a river, a well, water pumps, etc.) and transported or carried containers with water to people's homes. After the construction of pipe networks, the profession of water carrier became unnecessary and disappeared.