Monday, 3/24/2025
EAAD - Campus de Azurém - auditório 2
On March 24th, the Open Class “Villa El Salvador:
Modular Urban Design and Social Capital” will take place at 2pm in Auditorium 2
of EAAD, and will be given by Architect Jean-Paul Kaiser.
Jean-Paul
Kaiser is an architect from the Peruvian University of
Applied Sciences, Master in Human Settlements and Environment from the
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PhD candidate in Sustainability and
Urban Regeneration from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Currently
Director of the Architecture, Urbanism and Territory Program at the San Ignacio
de Loyola University in Lima, Peru.
Abstract: The
district of Villa El Salvador, located in the south of the city of Lima,
emerged in 1971 within a very specific context as a project effort by the
Peruvian state in response to internal migration and informal growth of the
city that had been occurring since the beginning of the 20th century. In this
context, despite the violent and informal origins of the slum city, it has been
the platform for emerging economies, as well as new cultural expressions and a
robust and flexible social capital that rescues and adapts community life from
the rural environment to the city. Villa El Salvador, through its modular
structure, provided a preconceived physical and spatial framework that
welcomes, reflects and enhances the social organization and economy of an emerging
population.
