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Federico G. Beckhoff, who arrived in the country with Klaus Heufer and K.P. Jebens, hired by Luis Malaussena in early 1950, became independent and began a solid career which made him the master architect in the design and development of housing in Caracas. Among the ones he developed in the 60s -in a second stage, after designing the Monaco and Palic buildings-, are the Capricornio (la Florida), Parque San Felipe (La Castellana), El Trapiche (Valle Arriba) and Mochima buildings, all of which have a common formal language. According to its owners, Beckhoff considered Mochima building as one of his best. The work, with sober and harmonious lines, emerges as an east-west oriented volume preceded by a garden, with a higher central circulation core, on a large plot facing a creek. Its architecture has ample and well distributed apartments, with continuous terraces with planters, stone façade planes, rigorous use of solid painted brick and magnificent details that created a style. According to Wal-ter J. Alcock, Beckhoff broke the scheme of small and medium apartments regulated by the real estate market of the 60s and 70s condominium boom, to propose homes with more footage, and new standards of modernity, quality and luxury, which positioned his architecture as a brand in Caracas, that is still maintained in time.
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