Bruno Stagno is a Costa Rica

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n architect.

Stagno combines conceptes from the contemporal international architecture with concepts from the tropical architecture. With it he developped an own syncretic

Syncretism

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 style which he practices in the Institute for Tropical Architecture in San José, which he founded himself. For his innovating work he was rewarded with a Prince Claus Award in 1997.

Sources

• Power of Culture, interview
• Prince Claus Fund, jury report