Architectural transculturation and hybridisation in the historic centre of metropolitan Lima

Abstract

Each culture has its own customs, uses and expressions, which, when superimposed on others, create a novel response that is gradually adapted as official culture. The study consists of identifying these manifestations in order to know the way in which they achieve the transformation or hybridization of the place. The historical center of Lima was selected as the study site, which is a conglomeration of buildings where very varied urban mutations can be appreciated. The study involved an analysis of actors and actions in which samples and examples have been selected that result in interposing personal and/or collective patterns with other equivalent ones, exposing a typological repertoire where each building, neighborhood or transect does not allow us to know what they are, but we do know what they are not. This is the central point between transculturation and architectural hybridization