Contemporary architecture in Peru

In: Cátedra Villarreal, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 198-203

Abstract

The article points to a questioning of what we are doing as current architecture in the country and not only that produced by architects but by other professionals or not, since the reality is that only a minuscule percentage of what is built in Peru It is the product of architects.However, we want to encourage the discussion of the approaches presented or those that have not been included (which are many) in order to provide the theoretical concepts of a reaffirmation of values ​​more in line with the times and the reality of the country, taking an interest in that large mass of inhabitants to whom thearchitecture. Likewise, it is not desired that having referred to the main aspects of architecture on a theoretical level, that is, function-form-structure, this means that they are separate factors. Nothing more wrong.We reaffirm that they are interrelated factors with an undeniable interaction, only that for greater clarity they are discussed separately, but that undoubtedly each one is a consequence of the other and vice versa. It will be enough for the author to feel that he or she has contributed at the end of reading.modestly to its objective, that is, to questioning. To talk about contemporary architecture in Peru and logically in Lima, mainly, we must first consider what we mean by architecture and then with the addition of contemporary.