Neo-Tiwanakan architecture

The Neo-Tiwanakan or Pseudo-Tiwanakan architecture is an architectural style developed by the architect Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda between 1930 and 1948, inspired by the designs of the Pre-Columbian archeological site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia.[1][2]

Origins

Emilio Villanueva popularized the Neo-Tiwanakan style in the city of La Paz during the 1930s. The inspiration for these designs was the blueprints for ideal reconstructions of Tiwanaku elaborated by Edmund Kiss in 1937; these designs were adapted by Villanueva to give them an urban and contemporaneous style.[1]

Notes

1. Browman, David (2007). La Sociedad arqueológica de Bolivia y su influencia en el desarrollo de la práctica arqueológica en Bolivia [The archeological society of Bolivia and its influence in the development of the archeological practice in Bolivia] (PDF). Nuevos Aportes (in Spanish). Vol. 4. La Paz, Bolivia. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
2. Pérez, Martín; Boero Rojo, Hugo; de la Riva, Miroslava (1990). Unión de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas (ed.). Guía de La Paz [La Paz guide]. Guías UCCI (in Spanish). Vol. 13. Madrid, Spain. ISBN 978-84-87771-02-6. OCLC 433846494.