During the first decades of the twentieth century, when a traditional architectural outlook of classical languages and order still ruled, the architect Luis Miró Quesada Garland (1914-1994) was a fundamental precursor to the change of mentality that would lead Peru towards a contemporary and modern architecture.
Luis Miró Quesada, also known as "Cartucho", was a great theoretician and disseminator of the new Peruvian architecture. A graduate of the National University of Engineering (UNI) in 1937, he was a teacher, journalist, art critic and essayist, who published his first articles on architecture in the magazine El Comercio (1938) and four years later became head of the Works section of the Lima Public Benefit Society.
