*Work at Barclay Crousse* - **Location :** Lima, Peru - **Date :** 2015 - **Type:** Museum - **Client :** presidential commission for the place of remembrance - peruvian ministry of culture - **Area:** 4900 m² - **Status:** Build _{Images © Barclay Crousse} *** ![[Memoria01.jpg]] **Cultural center for the reconciliation of peruvian people, exhibition spaces, research center and auditorium** A presidential commission led by Nobel prized Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa launched in 2010 a national architectural competition for the construction of the Place of Memory, a place where people from diverse political and social origins work together to reach a possible reconciliation between the Peruvian people, following a bloody conflict initiated in 1980 by the terrorist movement, Shining Path, counting more than 70000 dead in twenty years. ![[Mem2.jpg]] The jury was conformed by Kenneth Frampton, Rafael Moneo, Francesco dal Co, Wiley Ludeña, and José G Bryce. The project is carefully inserted into the existing territorial logic of cliffs and ravines that characterizes the bay of Lima, thus merging harmoniously with it. By doing this, the building evokes memory in a much broader significance: the memory of landscape in its physical configuration and materiality, rather than dealing only with violence and political memory, which is the role of the permanent exhibition. ![[Mem3.jpg]] ![[Mem4.jpg]] ![[Mem5.jpg]]