Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Traducción de "L'antinomie de M. Gödel" (1936) de Chaïm Perelman

Editorial para el volumen, 3 número 2, de EHC.

El libro Cusco: tradición y modernidad. La industrialización, el comercio y sus protagonistas, como su nombre indica, ofrece una síntesis de la historia regional y productiva del Cusco, especialmente de la acontecida entre 1850 y 1950. El gran aporte de este libro radica en que, en palabras de los autores, «se valore el esfuerzo, ingenio y tenacidad de muchos emprendedores que fueron pioneros en la agroindustria y la industrialización o activos comerciantes, sin excluir el fundamental aporte de los intelectuales» (Samanez Argumedo y Kuon Arce, 2018, p. 13).

This article identifies the symbolic and architectural value of the Central Pavilion. The first building built for the National Engineering University in its new premises. The methodology applied in this research is drawn through the analysis of the urban and historical context, the study of the architectural typologies and the new construction materials that made this work one of the most modern of its time. Through the collection of images and information, the role it has acquired in society from its origin to the present will be known. The objective of this study aims to contribute to the sociocultural dissemination of the emblematic building of the UNI and evaluate the state of its current conservation.

The following article addresses the configuration and construction of the first modern psychiatric hospital of Peru. It focuses on the actions executed by the doctors, engineers and architects who participated in this project. The study period begins in 1896, when the Ministry of Development called for a public tender in order to receive the best proposals for the construction of a House of the Insane that could replace the Cercado Asylum; it ends in 1918 with the inauguration of Colonia de la Magdalena Asylum or Victor Larco Herrera Hospital. The article is divided into two parts. The first section describes the importance of the technical and medical professionals in the modernization process of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Furthermore, it describes the role played by the Ministry of Development and the Public Charity Society of Lima in said process. Finally, the characteristics of project that won the above-mentioned tender are shown. In the second section, the article analyzes the construction process of the General Asylum, paying attention to the dialogue that takes place between the participating agents (engineers, architects and doctors).

This article analyzes an in-depth interview with restoration architect Martin Fabbri, carried out in 2017. It shows the expressions of restoration architecture, and the actions executed in it, while contrasting the discipline with some of the international charters and documents on the subject, in order to understand how this scholar combines theory and experience to achieve adequate and sustainable heritage conservation and restoration interventions according to current international standards and Peruvian reality. To achieve this, the article mentions national and international examples that show the influence of prominent thinkers, and international treaties and charters, in the protection and management of monuments. The above-mentioned is crucial to understand Fabbri's professional development as a restoration architect; the concepts he develops and the criteria he uses to work with Peruvian heritage, which can still be observed in some of his most outstanding works.

The archaeological sites located inside the campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) are part of an extensive pre-Hispanic complex that, unlike other sites that existed in Metropolitan Lima, managed to be partially conserved. It occurred mainly due to the work of people committed to heritage such as Dr. Josefina Ramos de Cox and other members of the Archeology Seminary of the university. The initial management actions taken towards this piece of heritage, consisting of Huaca 20, Huaca 64 and the Inca Trail, were related to defense, protection and research. On the other hand, recent actions have been associated to the rescue and enhancement of the monuments, tasks that have been carried out thanks to political will institutional commitment. The following article aims to present the experience of the management of the university’s archaeological heritage, which will be considered on the basis of normative frameworks, values ​​and functions. Likewise, it evaluates achievements linked to the exercise of the above-mentioned commitments, and proposes challenges related to the integration of archaeological heritage to the daily life of the PUCP community.

The present study consists of revaluing the historical and architectural importance of the Welsch House, a shop of German origin, dedicated to the sale of jewelry and watches in Lima in the mid-nineteenth century. Through the compilation of unpublished images and information, one will be able to learn more about its transformation from the time of its construction to the restoration project that was carried out in 2012. One of its best features is the famous front clock that for many years fronted the property and provided the official time to all people who passed through Jirón de la Union, the street where it was located; it was removed from original location at the end of the last century. For this reason, the study highlights its historical value, so that it may be recognized and assimilated by society. As well, the purpose of this work is to contribute to the diffusion of this monument as a part of the Historic Center of Lima.

Valdivia City suffered a transformation after its refoundation in 1647 as a walled city. During the XVII and the XVIII century a process of consecutive improvement for the walls or fences was pursuit. All this was a product of the climatic and geographic situations, as well as military engineering requirements. In this process two Turrets were built by the same quarter of the XVIII. Its origin was justified by the need of strengthening two points considered as strategic and vulnerable in the city. Moreover, population protection was not the only purpose, but also to consolidate the progress to other zones, which by that time were under mapuche-huilliche domain. During the second decade of the XX, both turrets were declared as Historical Monument. These are two postcards which identify the city, but they lack the meaning and sense by which they were built.

Mercedes Cárdenas represents, as very few people, what a university professor should be, she used to combine a tireless disposition for research with a dedication to the training of new professionals.