by Susan | Sep 14, 2020 | Monuments
The Monument for Peace was erected by Dr. Farid Mattar in 1963 as an ecological monument and a tribute to recycling. Constructed only with stones and leftovers from construction sites all over the city of Caracas, each stone was placed, according to Mattar’s own...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2020 | Monuments
Forty nine statues occupy niches on the facade of the Museo Polifacético Rocsen (Rocsen Multifacted Museum) in Nono, Córdoba Province, Argentina. As the museum’s founder, Juan Santiago Bouchon, explained: “I represented an “Evolution of...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2019 | Monuments
The Monument to World Peace is located near the entrance to the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, the site of the 1992 Global Forum, a conference of non-governmental organizations held during the 1992 Earth Summit (formally known as the United Nations...
by Susan | May 14, 2018 | Monuments
The Monument No More Torture is in Padre Henrique Plaza in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Designed by the architect Demetrio Albuquerque in response to a city request for proposals, it was the first monument built in honor of the dead and disappeared during the military...
by Susan | May 11, 2015 | Monuments
Lanza del Vasto wrote about this statue, officially called Christ, Redeemer of the Andes, in his book Warriors of Peace. When the relations between Argentina and Chile deteriorated, the two armies marched toward each other through the high passes in the Andes. But on...
