Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda as Bolivian architect (1882-1970).
Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda was born at La Paz in 1882. His recorded nationality is Bolivia. He trained at University of Chile.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Bolivia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda died in 1970, aged 88. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Chile
