Tomás Toribio

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Tomás Toribio

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Latin American architecture
The new institutions of government
…in Montevideo, Uruguay, designed by Tomás Toribio. The Neoclassical academic architecture of the cabildo applies the language of Renaissance architecture (i.e., columns, arches, friezes) to large-scale buildings adjusted to accommodate new typologies and freed from a proportional system, lending a new form to the institutions of government.
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…in Montevideo, Uruguay, designed by Tomás Toribio. The Neoclassical academic architecture of the cabildo applies the language of Renaissance architecture (i.e., columns, arches, friezes) to large-scale buildings adjusted to accommodate new typologies and freed from a proportional system, lending a new form to the institutions of government.
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