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Article: A Shangri-La architect The ancient temples of Nepal's Katmandu Valley are beautiful, fragile -- and falling down. That's why Massachusetts native Erich Theophile is helping the Nepalese preserve the richness of their past even as they build for their future.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1996
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The directions to Erich Theophile's house are simplicity itself.
It's the place with the yellow door, tucked behind the white temple
-- the only white temple in a forest of small sacred structures that
crowd the palace square of Patan, one of the ancient kingdoms of the
Katmandu Valley, in Nepal. The buildings turn the square into a
chessboard on which the ornate pieces might have been arranged by
giants -- perhaps by the gods and goddesses worshipped there.
Without Theophile, some of those pieces would disappear. For
almost a decade, Erich Theophile -- 38, born in Boston and raised in
Framingham, educated at Harvard and at the architecture school at the
Massachusetts Institute of ...