Renowned Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona dies at 78

“Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona, a headstrong urbanist whose exposed brick structures celebrated his home of Bogota and won international praise, died Wednesday, a close friend said. He was 78.

Salmona ”” whose life work won him the 2003 Alvar Aalto Medal, one of architecture’s highest honors ”” died of complications from colon cancer, said the friend, Fernando Quiroz.”

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