For a few weeks, we have seen the artwork of an artist on our Facebook wall. Edgartista, or Edgar Gonzalez, is a Guatemalan transplant who now lives in New York.

His designs can best be described as black and white amalgams of famous architectural landmarks.  His recent series, ’12 Masters of Architecture,’ takes a famous architect and mashes together all of his or her respective buildings.

We noticed his work on our Facebook wall and asked him to send over a few more from the Masters of Architecture series.  A fun aspect of looking at his work is trying to identify all of the buildings that make up the amalgam.  When viewed from afar, these mash-ups begin resembling pre-Columbian war masks – perhaps a nod to his years growing up in Central America.

Santiago Calatrava

Zaha Hadid

Frank Gehry

Oscar Niemeyer

Renzo Piano

Norman Foster

Find out more about the artist here.

by Marc Kushner

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