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    Luciana Borges

    Nov 25, 2018 4 minutes

    On her walk home from school in Uberlândia, the fantastically named Brazilian city where she grew up, Luciana Borges would admire the modern homes being built around her. As she commented on their forms, her friends would roll their eyes, unable to comprehend her interest. To her, the contemporary designs proved a compelling juxtaposition against the more typical, traditional architecture. “My city is only about 250 years old and I’d watch these very new, chunky modern designs coming up,” she recalls, still a little awed.

    Back then, work and a career hadn’t entered her world view, it was simply a daily pleasure to admire the contemporary architecture

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