SIX URBAN CAUTIONARY TALES FOR EASTER
Oklahoma University, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
Latin American Architecture and Urban Systems: LIMA April 6, 2021
Speaker: HÉCTOR ABARCA TORRES, BArch, MSc. Arch, Architect AIBC, MRAIC
Moche Style )1AD – 800AD)
Haute Couture. Photo: Mario Testino, 2013. Cosas
The Giant of Paruro. Photo: Martin Chambi, 1932
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima
Lima.. Pedro Nolasco, 1687
El Buque Adobe. Photo: Andina, 2015.12.03
Six Easter
CITY #1 THE EARTHEN CITY IN THE LAND OF QUAKES
Cathedral of Ica after the 2007 Pisco earthquake Getty Conservation Institute
Portrait of José Manzo de Velasco, 1st Count of Superunda, Viceroy of Peru. Cristobal Lozano, 1758. Museum of the Cathedral of Lima
CITY #2 THE CITY OF WELFARE ASSISTANCE (NOT) FOR ALL (INCAS YES, INDIANS NOT)
Proteger las Industrias Nacionales es Contribuir a la Prosperidad del País»A. G. Rossell. Industria Peruana 2, 1931
Peruvian Pavilion – Iberoamerican Exhibition, Seville 1929
1936 & 1940
1926 - 1930
Project for the development and beautification of the North of Lima, 1933
Rational Colonial Villa, 1928 Hundred Story City in Neo-American Style by Francisco Mujica, 1929. El Arquitecto Peruano 54 January, 1942
Worker’s Housing # 1, 1937. Source: El Arquitecto Peruano 26, Sept. 1939
Worker’s Housing # 1, 1937
Buenos Aires, 1939
Worker’s Housing # 2, 1937
Popular Restaurant # 2, 1937
CITY #3 THE FUNCTIONAL, RADIANT & HEARTH(LESS) CITY
Neighbourhood Unit #3. National Housing Corporation. El Arquitecto Peruano 146, Sep. 1949
Fernando Belaunde at Neighbourhood Unit #3. c. 1949. Source: El Arquitecto Peruano
Source: www.lensculture.com/projects/416877-uv3
Source: FB page:Unidad Vecinal #3 pedacito de tierra querida
1949 Pilot Plan of Lima,,Civic Center by Jose Luis Sert & Paul Lester Wiener
1949 Pilot Plan of Lima, National City Planning Office
Interview with Paul Lester Wiener. Caretas 108, Abri 1956
Caretas 261, February1963
CITY #4 THE INCREMENTAL CITY OF EMPOWERING ARCHITECTURE
PP1 – I-4 Atelier 5
PP1- I-13 Houses generated by patterns, 1969
PP1– I-8 Maki, Kukokawa, Kikutake PP1 – I-4 Atelier 5
PP1 – I-2 Knud Svensson
erbert Ohl, Prefabricated Space Cell System
inistry of Housing, 1975-9
Llanos- Mazzarri, Tilt-up Unicreto Systeass
Quinta Monroy by Elemental. Photo: Estudio Palma, 2003
Das wachsende Haus, Martin Wagner, 1931
Das wachsende Haus Hilberseimer, 1932. University of Kassel, 2019
PP! – I-8 Maki, Kukokawa, Kikutake
PP! – P22 Llanos - Mazzarri
PP! – I-8 Maki, Kukokawa, Kikutake
PP! – I-11 Aldo van Eyck
Playground. Peter Land & Aldo van Eyck
Peter Land & Manuel Llanos, 2015
Peter Land & Rene Peralta, 2015
PP1– I-11 Aldo van Eyck PP1 – I-5 Toivo Korhonen
PP3 – Site & Services, 1979
PP4 - Post -disaster self- aided construction, 1979
CITY #5 THE CITY OF ANARCHIST HOUSING PRACTICES
Architectural Digest, August 1963
Architectural Digest, August 1968
N.Y., 1972
John F. C. Turner, 1959
London, 1976
Aided self-help Housing Project. - The Housing & Planning Problems of Arequipa. John F. C. Turner, 1959 – 60
London, 1978
London, 1973
London, 1976
AD Profiles 14. July 1978
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, 1928. illustration: Ernest H. Shepard
Peruvian participation to UN HABITAT Conference, Vancouver 1976
Bill for the legalization of barriadas, 1961 John Turner at Habitat Forum
Tondo Foreshore Competition, AR May 1976
Tondo Foreshore Competition Exhibition, Vancouver 1976
Huaycan. Eduardo Figari et . Al., 1984
BBC, 1972
Breuer Cottage, 1949. Marcel Breuer Digital Archive
Summertime at Drop City, Colorado, 1967. Photograph: Richard Kallweit Steward Brand, 1968-72 Architecture without architects. Bernard Rudofsky, 1964
Architecture without architects. MoMA, 1964
Huaycan Technical Office, 1984
Huaycan Community Center, 1984
Municipality of Lima
Ocupa tu Calle / BID / Municipality of Rimac, 2020
Espacios Revelados / Siemens Stiftung / Universidad del Pacífico, 2021
Elementary School, Jerusalén de Miñaro / Marta Maccaglia (Semillas), 2017
Getty Institute / Ministry of Culture of Peru, 2013-2019
CITY #6 POST SCRIPT: LEARNING FROM OKLAHOMA
(…) Where is the strong body with a slow stride, but safe, of the Indian? Instead, I find a paralyzed body that has been attacked by the contagious disease of "modernism” The Peruvian, (…) a result of the perfect identification with the elements of earth. Encased in Easter care packages, manufactured wholesale. Keep boxing yourselves in, and put flowers, because this is more than physical death, it is the death of feelings and emotions. Letter of Victoria Autumn to Fernando Belaunde. El Arquitecto Peruano 179-180, June 1952
Violeta Autumn (Chiclayo, 1930 – Sausalito, 2012)
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Easter six
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Time, December 1965
In/formal – Peruvian Pavilion at the 2014 Biennale di Venezia
THANKS !