The Carmelite convent designed by Mr. Marvel in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. image © Gil Amiaga

Thomas S. Marvel, an architect whose regional style of modernism left an imprint on dozens of public buildings, churches and houses across the Caribbean, died on Tuesday at his home in San Juan, P.R. He was 80. The cause was prostate cancer, his son Jonathan said. Mr. Marvel first went to Puerto Rico in 1959 to build low-cost housing for the International Basic Economy Corporation, a company founded by Nelson A. Rockefeller to improve developing nations. At the end of his three-month assignment, he decided to stay.....Continue Reading

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