LIMA MODERNISM

When I travel, I love to generate a form from the photos that I took the day before.  I am currently in Lima, which is turning out to be a modernist paradise.  Here in the city, there is a wondrous array of absolutely stunning modernist pieces.  All of these buildings are authentic.  

I was particularly captivated by this building, which is at Parque Kennedy.  As my photos below attest, it checks all of the CIAM inspired boxes:
-floating horizontal base
-intricately detailed facade
-upper forms supported over the lower form with pilots
-floor to ceiling glazing
-color palate of light green
It even has a sumptuous curved wall at the base where autos enter the parking garage.  

It makes me wonder, was this first, or was Lever House first?  They both play off of the same themes.  Here we have modernist excellence.  And yet it is very likely not in any history book.  And because it is not, then this becomes, what, modernist vernacular?  Because it is ignored, it becomes just another ordinary modernist tour de force?  

For my drawing above, I first drew the building so as to generate a base geometry.   Then I employed Form Combine by overlaying another modernist building that I photographed; the pink, yellow and blue tones are the overlay.   The white lines utilize the resulting combined base geometry so as to generate, or at least begin to generate,  a new holistic form.

We will be back out in the city today, and I am honestly in expectation of what might be just down the next street, in this modernist paradise. 

THE NEXT DAY UPDATE

Speaking of Lever House, suddenly, in Lima, there it was. I couldn’t believe it. This building is partially vacant, and is showing wear. It is sandwiched in between two other buildings, not floating in space like it is on Park Avenue. Which made me wonder, is this principally economic? That is to say, is Lever House is revered exactly because it had a high budget, broad site setbacks, and expensive materials? It is a common anthropological understanding that we study, and thus worship, things built for the rich, or at least things that took enormous amounts of money. So, really, is the separation between the two buildings on this page, and Lever House, principally economic?