Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots. |
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| Urban Chalet style house
There's a sub-genre of house called Chalets. You don't just find them in vacation areas but in the middle of the city, like this one on Sarmiento in Almagro, a busy commercial street with heavy traffic. Ever since my first visit to Argentina in 1993 this style has struck me as bizarre and without obvious influences. An architect friend had this to say about the style: No viene de ninguna lado... es la grasada chic cara de new rich que contrata a un arquitecto amigo grasa... Sería un techo Neo Alpino, con mucho machimbre (madera de pino teñida y barnizada brilloso.... grasa, madera barata pero porque al grasa le gusta el machimbre de pino... Este New rich por lo general es comerciante del conurbano bonaerense o del once... O tienen un negocio grande y tradicional heredado de los abuelos en algun barrio que no es donde está esta casa. |
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 | Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures. |