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Article: The history boy: American architect Erich Theophile is a man on a mission to preserve Nepal's ancient wonders.(EYE)
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Erich Theophile has no particular affinity for bullwhips and fedoras, but it wouldn't be off base to call him the Indiana Jones of architecture: The dashing 48-year-old loves nothing more than rescuing historical treasures in far-flung locales.
After graduating from Harvard and earning a master's in architecture from MIT, Theophile began restoring historic homes in his native Boston. But he found the work, which meant sticking to strict zoning roles, a bore. "In Beacon Hill, every garage door had to be painted slate gray," he says wearily over breakfast one spring morning at London's Charlotte Street Hotel.
So in 1987, when his mentor, Harvard ...