Background
Jorge Arango Sanin was born on November 29, 1916 in Bogota, Colombia. Son of Fernando Arango and Maria Sanin.
(Villa Sofia is an autobiography, rich in ideas and events...)
Villa Sofia is an autobiography, rich in ideas and events, that will surprise and enchant readers in both parts of the American continent and beyond. Surprise, in that it offers original opinions to challenge the more common perceptions of the Americas; enchant, because the reader will find an uncommonly high quality of life which they possibly never knew existed in the south of the continent. As the story of a personal quest for self-fulfillment and achievement, it will inspire individuals in search of direction, showing them the author's dedication to improving his own self first, before moving through life to fill the voids in his world, which explains the high recognition he gained from outstanding individuals, such as Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, I.M. Pei, Roberto Burle Marx and many other distinguished individuals in various parts of the world whom the author knew well and with whom he enjoyed the privilege of friendship.
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Jorge Arango Sanin was born on November 29, 1916 in Bogota, Colombia. Son of Fernando Arango and Maria Sanin.
Student, Universidad Catolica de Chile School Architecture, 1935-1942;
student, Harvard Graduate School Design, 1942-1943.
Head architectural firm Arango & Murtra, Bogota, 1946-1959. Professor architecture and urban design National University, 1945-1947. Visiting professor School Architecture University California, Berkeley, 1956, 58.
Public buildings director Colombia, 1948-1949. President Colombian Society Architects, 1946-1951, Colegio Engineers and Architects of Colombia, 1955. Co-creator (with Le Corbusier) basic plan for development Bogota, 1948.
(Villa Sofia is an autobiography, rich in ideas and events...)
(Book by Arango, Jorge)
Member American Institute of Architects (member emeritus).
Married Elizabeth Leighton, 1944. 1 child, Peter; Married Judith Brooks Wolpert, December 14, 1951. Children: Richard, Virginia.
Married Penelope Corey, August 18, 1976.