About: Álvaro Barrera

Álvaro Barrera Herrera is a Colombian architect, born in 1945, who has done restorative architectural work, both in Colombia and other Latin American countries (including some of Panama's colonial buildings). He oversaw the restoration of in Cartagena, Colombia, an 18th-century colonial building constructed for a count near the in 2007. A commission for the French actor . He was also the architect in charge of the restoration of , a 17th-century building in Cartagena that faces the Cathedral, Governor's Residence and overlooking the Plaza Bolivar.