We Peruvians have the most incredible architectural background. One can find brilliant solutions of how to deal with nature in every intervention done by Incas and Pre Columbian Peruvians at where their Empire used to be. However contemporary Peruvian architecture doesn’t represent such conditions.

There is a question which answers help me look for the modern Peruvian architecture. Where did we loose the connection?

The best way for natives, at Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca, to express themselves is by weaving, in fact they learn to weeve before reading or writing. Traditionally, the way to report their year round activities is by using different types of symbols on thier weaved waistbands, an important piece of their attire. This community had maintained their ancestral traditions for centuries, becoming one of the few communities in the planet where one can find and learn essential ways of living. I feel fortunate to collaborate with them in the Master Planning of their Island. They expect vanguard architecture coming to their place; I feel vanguard architecture should appreciate the basics of life.

A long time ago, I was very moved by a futuristic movie in which, due overpopulation on Earth, people had the chance to choose: date, place, atmosphere (favorite song, movie, etc) to pass to a better life. Since then I thought of that moment as something every person deserves to have; however, considering that the situation is not possible in our society, the closest to that sublime moment should be the place in which you will live your last years. For me as an architect the issue is a magnificent opportunity to create, this is exactly the design circumstances of the house in the hill of Pachacamac. The client gives the commission to design the place where he is going to live after he retires from work.He could have asked for the place where he is going to die, or simply for the place to find eternity. The Inca and pre-Columbian cultures settled in the arid Peruvian desert for centuries are excellent examples of how to deal with all these issues

The night before to a planed visit to Puruchuco an Inca architectural site near Lima, I was reading a text by Louis Khan and Gabor in which they talk about light. Not only until I entered to one of the rooms at Puruchuco, where I could appreciate the particular way in which the incas used to invite their God ( Sun) to their intimate spaces that I understood the real meaning of what I was reading the night before: ….“What is the shadow of white light?” Gabor has the habit of repeating what you say, “White light…white light…I don’t know.” And I said, “Black, Don’t be afraid, white light does not exit, not does black shadow exist.” …

wow. this is so incredibly cool and uncannily familiar...
thanks for sharing this
closest representation yet to what i've (we) seen and visited...
again, wow.

The average price of these homes are between $300,000 and $600,000, which makes them unavailable for the public, but the perfect housing for the Bolivian bourgeoisie.