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. From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 6, 1996| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright 1996 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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 o...

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