Gilberto "Behr" Champana is a Puerto Rican architect based in Atlanta, Georgia. Puerto Ricans in the United States (also referred to as the "Puerto Rican Diaspora," " Nuyorican " "Stateside Puerto Ricans" "mainland An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction He is the current vice-president of the firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVSA). __FORCETOC__ For the Vice President of the United States, their roles and other information see Vice President of the United States. Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates (TVS is an international architecture and Interior design firm in the areas of planning Architecture, Interior design
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Biography
Early years
Gilberto Champana was born in Río Piedras, San Juan. Río Piedras is the largest district of the city of San Juan Puerto Rico. San Juan (saŋ hwaŋ (from the Spanish San Juan Bautista, " Saint John the Baptist " is the Capital and largest municipality in He is the son of an Italo-spaniard father and a French mother. The' Italian people' are a Southern European Ethnic group located primarily in Italy, Switzerland, France and by virtue of a wide-ranging Legal residents and citizens To be French according to the first article of the Constitution is to be a citizen of France regardless of one's origin race or religion ( Champana says that he always enjoyed drawing. Drawing is a Visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium He always enjoyed collecting comic books.
College studies
When he was 17 years old, he went to New Orleans to study at the University of Tulane. New Orleans (nʲuːˈɔrliənz nʲuːˈɔrlənz French: La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana Tulane University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was there that he acquired the alias of "Behr" when his friends found it difficult to pronounce his real name.
During those years and the summers he spent back in Puerto Rico, his mentor was Horacio Díaz, a renowned Puerto Rican architect that was awarded by the American Institute of Architects for his contributions to the island architecture. The American Institute of Architects (AIA is a professional organization for Architects in the United States. Under his tutelage, Champana won a fellowship with Venezuelan architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva. A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the Carlos Raúl Villanueva ( London May 30, 1900 - Caracas August 16, 1975) was the most prominent Venezuelan
Currently
Eventually, Champana went on to work for the firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates. Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates (TVS is an international architecture and Interior design firm in the areas of planning Architecture, Interior design He is currently its vice-president.
Recently, they completed a proposal for the ambitious project of the Dubai Towers in that Middle Eastern country. Dubai Towers Dubai is a four tower complex proposed in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Works
External links
- "A la altura del Oriente Medio", Interview with Primera Hora. The Puerto Rico Convention Center ( PRCC) (or Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico in Spanish) is a Convention center located in Primera Hora is a newspaper based in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico and distributed daily throughout the island (Spanish)
- "Bent-glass facade will 'Eternally Light' New Dubai Skyscraper", Interview with AIArchitects
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