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Wenceslao Alfonso Sarmiento (September 28, 1922 [1] – 24 November 2013 [2] ), also known as W.A. Sarmiento, was a Peruvian -born American modernist architect. [3] Sarmiento studied in various locations in South America, for eighteen months in the office of Oscar Niemeyer, before coming to the United States.
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Dec 5, 2013 · Born Wenceslao Alfonso Sarmiento Leon on Sept. 28, 1922, in Trujillo, Peru, Sarmiento grew up in Lima. He graduated from Peru’s Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros in 1946. He also served in the...
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Conversation with Wence Sarmiento: Architect of the AAA. | by Ryan J. Reed, Sarmiento (center) at the Pheonix Financial Center in 1967. The American Automobile Association (AAA) Building was designed in 1976 by internationally known architect Wenceslao (Wence) Sarmineto. A native of Peru, Sarmiento graduated from the National School of ...
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Feb 16, 2015 · Wenceslao A. Sarmiento, born in Peru, started designing for the prolific Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America in 1949. By 1952, Sarmiento was chief of design and had reoriented the company’s design practice toward a brand of iconic, playful modernism that drew inspiration from work by Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, Harris ...
Wenceslao A. Sarmiento (Architect) Male, US, born 1922-09-22. Associated with the firms network. Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America; Sarmiento, W. A., Architect. Professional History. Draftsman, Oscar Niemeyer, Architect, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 months, c. 1949-1950.
Jun 17, 2021 · The creation of well-known architect Wenceslao Sarmiento, who was famous primarily in the 1950s and 60s for the hundreds of bank and office buildings he designed, the Phoenix Financial Center soon became known as the “Punch Card Building” for the facade on the southeastern side of the structure that resembles a computer punch card.
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