Artist/Designer:
Project Location: Lima, Peru
Style/Period(s):
No Style/Period Assigned.
Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.
Function(s):
Government, Airport
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
1940-1949, 1941, 1948, 1960-1969, 1961, 1964
Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
Otero-Pailos, Jorge. “Historic Provocation: Thinking Past Architecture and Preservation.” Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism 2, no. 2 (2005): ii–vi. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25834968.
Additional Information:
The first airport opened on November 3, 1935, but the more modernised and second version of the airport that is featured here and opened on September 23, 1948. This airport closed on January 31, 1964 and was replaced by the Jorge Chávez international airport because the airport needed to be bigger and have more land. Today the building houses Peru's Ministry of the Interior and has since 1961. The runways have turned into avenues and the once sparse land is metropolitan.
Project Description:
Building Address:
Av. Canaval y Moreyra Cdra. 6,
San Isidro 15036,
Peru
Supporting Designers/Staff:
Significant Dates:
The airport's construction began in 1941 and opened on September 23, 1948. It closed on January 31, 1964.
Associated Projects:
Tags:
Airport, Historical, Peru, Lima
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