Dicken Castro. Colombian architect and graphic designer. Concerned about urban space, and with particular interest in the management and use of Guadua. He also ventured from the fifties into the field of graphic design , in which he designed the logos of important companies as well as some currencies . Linked to the National University of Colombia and Jorge Tadeo Lozano , he contributed to the training of new generations of architects. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Summary
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biographical synthesis
He was born in Medellín , Colombia on September 23 , 1922 .
Trajectory
He graduated as an architect from the National University of Colombia in Bogotá . He did postgraduate studies in architecture at the University of Oregon-Eugene, United States , and worked as an assistant professor there. He settled for several years in the city of Seattle , Washington , and worked as a professor at the University. He also served as a designer architect in New York .
Always concerned with urban space, he decided to study urban planning at the Bouwcentrum in Rotterdam , the Netherlands , joining the Planning office in The Hague . When he returned to Colombia , he entered the National University as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture. He has been one of the first architects who, with solid foundations, entered the field of graphic design since the fifties .
His are the symbols and logos of Proexpo, Colsubsidio, the XXXIX International Eucharistic Congress, Camacho Roldán y Compañía, the Latin American Episcopal Conference of 1979, and many others. He approached pre-Columbian ceramics and textile and graphic design , studying the use of rollers and stamps. The identity of various popular expressions has also been a subject of his interest, especially the decoration of the bus-stairs and the murals of houses and facades in the towns.
In the field of architecture , he was one of the first to use exposed brick in interior design and in the walls of his buildings. He considered it important to include the elements produced by the region in the regional architecture. His study of guadua, which dates back to the 1940s, was published in the United States and Europe , since only in Latin America is its use basically structural, especially on steep terrain.
Death
He died on November 11 , 2016 in Bogotá . [1]