Limatambo International Airport, Lima, Peru (1941)

Artist/Designer:

Project Location: Lima, Peru

Figure 1: Main hall ( Source | Accessed : March 3, 2023 )

Figure 2: Main hall ( Source | Accessed : March 3, 2023 )

Figure 3: Directors office ( Source | Accessed : March 3, 2023 )

Figure 4: Third floor hall ( Source | Accessed : March 3, 2023 )

Figure 5: Interior of the Ministry of the Interior in the 2010s ( Source | Photographer: Carlos Francisco Espinoza Poma )

Figure 6: Exterior of the Ministry of the Interior today ( Source | Photographer: Mirtha RG )

Style/Period(s):
No Style/Period Assigned.

Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.

Function(s):
Government, Airport

Related Website(s):

Blog about the history of the airport. | Accessed : March 6, 2023

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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