This investigation on the prehispanic memory of Lima and its surroundings lifts the layer of modernity that hides the original form of one of the oldest and most complex metropolis in Peru. The ancient planning, unique and challenging, always allowed the territory to rise from the destructions it suffered and build new stable territorial relationships. Lima’s ceremonial centers, whose costruction began in the third millennium b.C., evolved with imposing strength and on the basis of the cyclic renewal of inanimate nature. Lima progressively reveals the perpetual construction of a web of roads and canals that have always united, in a harmonious and unitary system, three different rivers, three different climates and a multiplicity of ethnic groups. Its shape has transformed an inhospitable dessert into a landscape of great economic, environmental and aesthetic value; and the city’s origin is still alive in today’s traditions. As roads last more than buildings in the same way that good ideas last more than the people that produce them, the lines of ancient Lima created a layout that is permeated of ancestral memory, which, though already invisible, can still be unveiled. And that is what this book does. The book’s prologue is written by Professor Tom Zuidema.

Additional information:
Author: Adine Gavazzi
Year of publication: 2014
Language: Spanish
Sponsor: Pricewaterhouse Cooper
Photography/Illustration: Eduardo Herrán, Evelyn Merino-Reyna, Horizons
Pages: 260
Size: 24 × 32.5 cm
Legal deposit: 2014-12468
ISBN: 978-612-45824-7-9
Copyright: Apus Graph Ediciones