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Message of Ambassador of Peru

   

I would like to thank to the Journal of All India Architects (JAIA) to offer me the opportunity to address to its readers about the current promissory expectations between our countries, particularly on architectural and construction industry issues, including the historical and current trends of this discipline in Peru.

I would like to refer in first term the importance of the growth and consolidation of this industry in the last years. This is based on the current impressive Peru’s macroeconomics that has let configure a stable, attractive and profitable market for infrastructure investments. Peru’s economy has grown in 8.7% in the year 2010 in a trend that has reached almost hundred months, having also obtained the “investment grade” by three major credit risk rating agencies.

This recognition that has begun to be known as the “Peruvian miracle” and has constituted a key factor for the growing interest received in my country by the Indian private and public sectors. Only in the year 2010, Peru received the visit of four high rank officials as the former Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Shashi Tharoor, the Minister of Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation and Tourism, Mrs. Kumari Selja , the Secretary of Mines, Santa Sheela Nair, and the Minister of State of Commerce and Industry, Jyotiraditya Scindia, who travelled accompanying by an important Entrepreneurial Mission last September.

The evolution of architecture in Peru could be better understood in comparison with the  Indian experience. 5,000 years ago, a coastal civilization in the north of Lima, the sacred city of Caral, bloomed at the same time of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro in the Indus Valley as one of the five oldest civilizations in the humanity.  Its legacy of magnificent buildings and squares influenced the millenary evolution continued for centuries by several civilizations in coast, mountain and rainforest locations such as Chavin, Mochica, Nazca, Paracas, Wari, Tiahuanaco, Chimu and Chachapoyas, among others.

In this trend, architecture and engineering achievements are vital elements that highlight the diversity and advancement reached by the ancient Peruvians in solid and innovative sites always in perfect communion with their natural surroundings.

Later on, the Spaniard conquest introduced new architectonical patterns and designs that created in time a “mix” style in all arts including a syncretism with the indigenous imagery in constructions and edifications. This cultural mixture reached its richer expression in the baroque time, as it is possible to see in different buildings such as the Church of Saint Francisco in Lima, the facade of the University of Cuzco and the churches of Saint Agustin and Saint Rosa in Arequipa.

After the Peruvian Independence in the XIX century, the Peruvian architecture received a strong influence from European Neoclassicism mainly of French inspiration, as can be appreciated in different examples such as the Saint Martin Square in downtown Lima.

Modern architecture in Peru is the result of this long evolution intermixed with current tendencies and influences, as a country opened to the world but without losing its old visions and traditions including the use of native materials and unique concepts. Neocolonial, neo-Inca and neo-Peruvian architecture are tendencies that continue based on the use of an architectural repertoire from the pre-Hispanic or colonial past.

The final result is a very diversified and rich architecture that comprises a vast spectrum of styles, from a strong social influence on what is called a “Peruvian style” to the most front-liner and revolutionaries designs. In the Andes cities, the traditional construction paradigms and the use of clay blocks are still present and alive.

In sum, architecture in Peru has to be understood as the reflect of its long history and deep culture but that is also inserted in the current globalization influences that are inserting and adapting progressively new modern patterns and ideas as part of its policies of openness and international interrelation.

We are sure that in this specific area, there are strong opportunities for interaction, cooperation and mutual learning between Peru and India, as part of the process initiated to strengthen our bilateral relations on the basis of common values and visions about democracy and sustainable development and as heirs of civilizations of old and deep cultural backgrounds.

Javier Paulinich, Ambassador of Peru

   
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