Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream woodland card and paper octagons

card and paper octagons

a parakeet

/ that plasters the straw

But try as he might

"--Chad Hayes MD

Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream woodland card and paper octagonsThe Spanish architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and his son, Rafael Guastavino Jr., designed more than one thousand iconic spaces across New York City and the United States. Written in the voice of the son, who was eight years old in 1881 when he immigrated to America with his father, this is their story. Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities densely packed and built largely of wood