Luis Miró Quesada Garland: A Forerunner of Modern Architecture in Peru
During the first decades of the twentieth century, when a traditional architectural outlook of classical languages and order still ruled, the architect Luis Miró Quesada Garland (1914-1994) was a fundamental precursor to the change of mentality that would lead Peru towards a contemporary and modern architecture.
Montaje con fotografías de Casa Huiracocha, el Edificio Radio El Sol y el Conjunto Habitacional Palomino. Fuentes: 25 años de Vivienda Residencial. (1963). El Arquitecto Peruano, 309-310-311,24-33. REVISTA: Premio Chavín de la Arquitectura: Luis Miró Quesada Garland. (1955). El Arquitecto Peruano, 214-215, 53. Conjunto Habitacional Palomino. (1967). El Arquitecto Peruano, 347-348, 36-39. Image © Vania Masalias
During the first decades of the twentieth century, when a traditional architectural outlook of classical languages and order still ruled, the architect Luis Miró Quesada Garland (1914-1994) was a fundamental precursor to the change of mentality that would lead Peru towards a contemporary and modern architecture.
