Behr Champana

Gilberto "Behr" Champana is a Puerto Rican architect based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the current vice-president of the firm Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVSA). Gilberto Champana was born in Río Piedras, San Juan. He is the son of an Italo-spaniard father and a French mother. Champana says that he always enjoyed drawing. He always enjoyed collecting comic books. When he was 17 years old, he went to New Orleans to study at Tulane University. It was there that he acquired the alias of "Behr" when his friends found it difficult to pronounce his real name. During those years and the summers he spent back in Puerto Rico, his mentor was Horacio Díaz, a renowned Puerto Rican architect that was awarded by the American Institute...