Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
 

Design: architecture, engineering, interior design, fashion design, furniture design, Aztec temples, Mayan temples, Aztec architecture.

Toronto and Canadian events: Alucine Film Festival, Hispano-American Film Festival, salsa concerts, reggaeton concerts,  Hispanic art exhibits,  architectural exhibits, music concerts, famous poems readings, dance classes and much more.
Latino Film coverage in Toronto and Canada: Alucine Film Festival, Hispano-American Film Festival, Si-Si Cine, Toronto International Latino Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival.
Cumbia dance steps, Tego Calderon, music notes, reggaeton, salsa bands, merengue songs, tango lessons, and more.
Theatre and dance. Cumbia dance steps, Mexican Hat Dance, Mexican dances, Hispanic theatre, Latino dance schools and more.
Aztec drawings, Picasso blue period, Frida Kahlo, wall murals, Diego Rivera, Cesar Rodriguez, Edward Robin Hoyer, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Diego Velazquez, Toronto Latino art exhibits, photography, illustration, painting, sculpture and graffiti.
Poems, famous poems, poetry contests, lyric poems, book summaries, poetry, love poetry, literature circles, Don Quixote, Toronto Hispanic Festival of Images and Words, Jose Rivera Tosi, Margarita Feliciano, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eduardo Galeano, Andres Burgos, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cervantes, Borges, Octavio Paz, Isabel Allende, and more.

Building without frontiers
Mosaico 21 sat down to talk to Carlos
Ott, the Uruguayan-born architect who
designed Paris's L'Opera de la Bastille,
Toronto's Simcoe Place and the National
Bank of Dubai Building. >>>

By Julio Cifuentes and Juan Pablo de Dovitiis
   
Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
  The crumbling foundations
Although Latin American architects are prime
targets for Canada 's immigration system, their
skills are seldom recognized by the Canadian
job market. >>>

By Juan Pablo de Dovitiis and Julio Cifuentes
   
Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
 
Virtual Galleries
 
Guatemalan architecture includes modernist designs and Mayan temples, as well as this colonial buildings such as the National Post Building. Latin American Architecture gallery:
Mayan temples, colonial buildings and modernist design.

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Pictures by Carmen Diaz
Julio Cifuentes--- A look into the roots and future of Latin America buildings, from Aztec architecture, through colonial buildings all the way to the modernist movement and beyond.
Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
Click on picture for gallery. Architecture gallery: urban landscapes
Click pictures to see
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Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
The Long catwalk home

Maritza Reyes and her Cinderella story have traveled half way around the world to
become one of Canada’s most promising young fashion designers. >>>

By Juan Pablo de Dovitiis
Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
B
uilding with the condors

Mosaico looks at the trends within South American architecture that are creating more
harmonious and regionally oriented concepts, while solving the challenges of local
geography. >>>
By Julio cifuentes
Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
Fashion: back to its Native roots

Latin American fashionistas are combining traditional designs with contemporary
styles to generate economic development within indigenous communities. >>>
By Patricia Toquica

Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.

Mexico: Between obsidian and glass
Mosaico's Design editor examines the cultural influences and social currents that
helped shape Mexico's past and current breed of architects.>>>
By Julio Cifuentes

Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
Tender cactus salad
Though not as recognized as architecture or even fashion, culinary creations require
as much ingenuity as many of today's structural wonders (not to mention that they taste
a lot better). >>>
Provided by El Jacalito Restaurant
Mosaicio 21--- Hispanic arts and culture magazine. Cumbia dance steps,  music notes,  Picasso blue period,  movie reviews, famous poems, Aztec architecture and more.
From ancient Copan to modern Sao Paulo
Mosaico looks at the history and influences behind architecture south of the Rio Grande. >>>
By Julio Cifuentes