For three days at the end of September, a group of students and professionals gathered in the Teatro Nacional in the old quarter of San Salvador for the 11th Mundaneum conference on architecture.
The biennial conference was conceived in 1998 by architects Alvaro Rojas of Costa Rica, Guillermo Honles of El Salvador, Teddy Cruz of California, and Daniel Rubio of Mexico, who identified that there were few opportunities in Central America for designers to gather and share ideas. “We made a promise to create an event so that important people would come to our countries and speak, sharing the knowledge of the world in one place,” says Rojas, who had founded a small architecture school, UniDis, in San José in 1993, which disbanded in 2009.
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