Posts Tagged ‘Fajardo’

Medellín, Colombia’s architectural renaissance

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Over the last two or three years, a steady buzz has been building in architecture and design circles about developments in this city of 3.5 million, which through much of the 1980s and 1990s was infamous for its sky-high murder... (Continue reading)

Medellín’s Nonconformist Mayor Turns Blight to Beauty

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Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, sporting three days’ growth of beard and unruly hair nearly down to his shoulders, Sergio Fajardo looks every bit the nonconformist mathematician who spent years attaining a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. But... (Continue reading)