This book presents a selection of chronicles and essays on architecture, cities, and Latin American figures. Through an honest and clear voice, the author explores our territories and the lives that unfold within them.
Within these pages, we discover the story of a former paramilitary member who builds a park in Medellín with their own hands, alongside the experience of Freddy Mamani, a self-taught architect in the Aymara periphery of La Paz. Moreover, the book immerses readers in the world of a master sandwich maker in the heart of the Vega Central and follows the journey of a packet of yeast traveling from Argentina to Chile during the height of the quarantine.
“Nicolás opens up possibilities for transformation—of neighborhoods, language, and communities—and does so through first-person learning. In that sense, he sheds light where there was none,” writes Ariel Florencia Richards in the prologue.
