Tests of love

So we escaped and married in Italy. As we did everything our own way, unconventional, always testing preconceptions we try to find our own small self path, we started living…

As there was no planning with this way of life, our first son, Pietro, came to life like love came as well. We had no money and we didn’t needed any (at least that what we thought at that moment).
Pietro came to life dead, and our first test came with it… Learning to stay together and always acting fast in a difficult situation, without hesitation, always putting what`s first first, we managed to come out safe and strong together. Some other tests came after with Pietro, that thank God we were able to face with the same attitude and with love, the cornerstone to do a great work in life, as Pietro`s name stands for…

Things started to settle down as we were able to start our own Estudio Pietra, a firm of art, restoration, architecture and a small furniture workshop.

We manage to work as architects with clients such as Saul e. Mendez in many of his early projects, as we had the vision of a contemporary way of living we were always searching for clients that could share with ourselves this way of seeing the future of art and architecture in Guatemala.

We started Art restoration at the Cathedral, looking for ways to present all the treasures hidden of the cathedral, and worked on the design of a Museum for this treasures.

We founded with Luis Gonzalez Palma and Dario Escobar among others Colloquia, the first contemporary Art Foundation in Guatemala.

We won the first Biennal of Architecture with the glass house, situation that put us in the spot at a very early stage of our career.

We were interviewed by cnn for our projects and innovations in our architectural way of seeing life…

With all this Crisol came to life, our daughter, completely different, always presenting herself from a very early stage as herself!

With Crisol came a new feeling, a new need that we couldn`t express in any of the works that we did at that time, we needed something else, but we didn`t know what it was. The meaning on the name Crisol stands for the recipient where all the great work is created…