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elilla&, tactical travesti

@th @ranjit @hannah

I see your drab European surrealism and raise you colourful Bolivian Neo-Andean.

Two of Mamani's celebrated buildings, inspired by the aguayo textiles of the Aymara people. They're in bright colours, full of round and sharp geometric figures that create interesting fractals and textures. One of these is in various tones of green against a white background, the other red-orange-yellow with dark glass winds reflecting the blue sky.
The interior halls are just as colourful, an explosion of patterns and bright primaries, as if you're walking inside an indigenous Andean textile.
24 Aug 2023 at 13:18 | Wall-to-wall | Open on transmom.love
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🌳 The Dandelion Grove 🌳

@elilla @th @ranjit @hannah oh hell yeah >:3 I remember seeing this before and absolutely getting all starry-eyed :3

Visual stimmies >:3

24 Aug 2023 at 13:19 | Open on social.translunar.academy
neijatolf
@elilla These houses look sooo beautiful! :blobcatadorable:
24 Aug 2023 at 13:36 | Open on soziale.verwirrung.institute
ranjit

@elilla @th @hannah might as well bring some Arakawa & Gins interior design, which is intended to grant immortality

a brightly colored room whose floor is divided by a maze-like arrangement of waist-high walls. There are are similar walls descending from the high ceiling.
a room whose floor is a series of sand-dune-like curves covered with lumps. Sunken in this floor is a little kitchen nook.
a room shaped like an inverted dome, with a concave floor filled with pillows. Everything is glossy orange.
24 Aug 2023 at 13:36 | Open on friend.camp
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@elilla @th @ranjit @hannah but where is everybody in the neo andean pic?

24 Aug 2023 at 13:37 | Open on toot.site
elilla&, tactical travesti

@StrwbrryJen @th @ranjit @hannah

Mamani is a working-class hero, having created a whole new architectural language based on his indigenous heritage, without any formal education in architecture (to great grievance of local academia). But on the other hand, I don't think common people get to live in these. The upper rooms of the distinctive buildings, reserved for the owners, are probably inaccessible except for those who can fund their construction.

Maybe that's why it's so hard to find photos of these buildings in actual use. They're intended to be multi-purpose, though, with the large halls in the lower floors meant for markets and festivals and dance rooms. Here's a couple photos I could find in use like that.

@StrwbrryJen @th @ranjit @hannah

Mamani is a working-class hero, having created a whole new architectural language based on his indigenous heritage, without any formal education in architecture (to great grievance of local academia). But on the other hand, I don't think common people get to live in these. The upper rooms of the distinctive buildings, reserved for the owners, are probably inaccessible except for those who can fund their construction.

A red and green Neo-Andean hall, set with white tables and chairs and pink-white balloons. Men in suits and women in Andean dresses pair in two rows; maybe a wedding celebration or similar.
A woman from the event above spinning a white-red dress.
24 Aug 2023 at 15:34 | Open on transmom.love
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