The earthquakes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were decisive for Lima, the City of the Kings. From the perspective of the history of architecture, the moments after the earthquakes are particularly interesting, especially the reconstructions of the great viceregal capital. What was rebuilt and why? What materials and methods were chosen and for what reasons? Where and how were the new lots laid out? Why was the city not moved, as it happened in other similar cases? This paper reflects on these questions and on what the presence of such disasters meant in the evolution of Lima and Peruvian immovable material culture.

El curso Restauración de Monumentos de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú traba ja cada semestre con una comunidad diferente, donde la presencia del patrimonio construido, en cualquiera de sus facetas, es importante tanto por lo que significa en términos simbólicos como por las posibilidades a futuro que este puede catalizar. En el semestre 2017-2 se traba jó con Lobitos, Piura. Este es uno de los Company Towns más antiguos del país, emblemático en muchos aspectos, incluso en lo referente al descuido y deterioro que presenta. La experiencia que aquí se describe muestra la manera de abordar el caso específico como un ejemplo de la metodología general del curso.

Huamachuco es una ciudad de la sierra del departamento de La Libertad (Perú) ubicada en un valle interandino a 3200 msnm; rodeado por zonas de gran importancia arqueológica ―como Marcahuamachuco y Viracochapampa― y, más recientemente, por áreas de explotación minera. La ciudad, donde se libró la última batalla de la Guerra del Pacífico, se halla a 184 kilómetros de Trujillo, en la costa del país, pero en todo término excepto el espacial ha permanecido relativamente aislada de una serie de procesos nacionales. El objetivo de este artículo es entender el asentamiento desde las perspectivas histórica y arquitectónica, apuntando a revalorizar la cultura material que se conserva y a caracterizar la ciudad como poseedora de un interesante conjunto patrimonial.

Este libro repasa brevemente la historia de la ciudad y se concentra en el desarrollo urbano y arquitectónico del centro histórico, marco de las casas de morada cajamarquina. Las características, particularidades y relación de estos edificios coloniales con el contexto son de indispensable revisión en un momento como el actual, en el que gran parte de este patrimonio se encuentra en peligro de desaparecer.

The earthquakes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were decisive for Lima, the City of the Kings. From the perspective of the history of architecture, the moments after the earthquakes are particularly interesting, especially the reconstructions of the great viceregal capital. What was rebuilt and why? What materials and methods were chosen and for what reasons? Where and how were the new lots laid out? Why was the city not moved, as it happened in other similar cases? This paper reflects on these questions and on what the presence of such disasters meant in the evolution of Lima and Peruvian immovable material culture.

The earthquakes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were decisive for Lima, the City of the Kings. From the perspective of the history of architecture, the moments after the earthquakes are particularly interesting, especially the reconstructions of the great viceregal capital. What was rebuilt and why? What materials and methods were chosen and for what reasons? Where and how were the new lots laid out? Why was the city not moved, as it happened in other similar cases? This paper reflects on these questions and on what the presence of such disasters meant in the evolution of Lima and Peruvian immovable material culture.

Domestic civil architecture is a very little studied subject in the intermediate cities of Peru, but it is, both in them as in thecapital, the most important and revealing part of the urban fabric and therefore of the city. This paper seeks to introduce thereader to the situation of the houses of Cajamarca (Peru), mainly those of the XVIII - XIX centuries, at the time of thefirst mining boom of Cajamarca with the exploitation of the silver veins of the neighboring Hualgayoc. As a result of thisboom, Cajamarca architecture and the interest of its inhabitants about personal luxury property developed at a significantlevel, as it is still possible to see through the filed records. The same documents show a city that despite being very little studiedin comparison with larger ones of the viceroyalty, has much to tell about a surprisingly rich and complex past.

The history of the Lima city is also the history of its blueprint and its urban network. From the humble initial settlement, going through extensions planned with care and order, to the complex and chaotic situation of the present, we can speak of a particular physical history and in many aspects exceptional: a reflection and product of the society that produced it, the ancient city of Los Reyes remains as it can be perceived today, in many quotidian ways, but not for that less determining.

«Ciudades, desastres y resiliencia. Perú y Chile siglos XVI-XX» ofrece una exploración meticulosa de cómo los fenómenos naturales han modelado las ciudades a lo largo de la historia en los territorios de Perú y Chile. A través de dieciséis artículos cuidadosamente seleccionados, esta obra propone una reflexión crítica sobre el impacto de desastres naturales —desde terremotos y tsunamis hasta erupciones volcánicas y deslizamientos de tierra— en el ámbito urbano, revelando cómo estos eventos catastróficos han influido en la reconstrucción, reubicación y reordenamiento de las ciudades en ambas naciones. Los artículos del libro están dispuestos en un orden cronológico que permite al lector seguir la evolución de las respuestas urbanísticas a estos desafíos, desde la época colonial hasta el presente.