Earthquakes, moves, reconstructions: what we learned in Lima (XVII-XVIII)

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 rebu...

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Autor: Scaletti-Cárdenas, Adriana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/26038
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/26038
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Earthquakes
Lima
Patrimony
Reconstruction
Terremotos
Patrimonio
Reconstrucción
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Sumario: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.