Atlas Insurance Headquarters, ca. 1953- 55, Lima downtown, built. India Ink with accents in watercolour on Canson card stock, 24x36” Canziani country house,1964, outside Lima, unbuilt. Watercolour on tracing paper, 12x18” Alter House, 1956, Lima, demolished. Photocopy of original India Ink on vellum, 24x36” Las Sirenas apartment building , 1959, Santa Maria del Mar, partially demolished. Studio black and white photograph of india ink drawing on gloss cardstock, 8x12”
Weberhofer is one of the few Peruvian architects with a body of work of regional importance, and up to now the only Peruvian architect who has exhibited his work in the United States, invited by an official mission of Canadian and American housing experts that toured South America in 1958. 1 They were impressed by Santa Maria del Mar, a modernistic beach resort where Weberhofer was the exclusive architect – a community of bold, extrovert summer houses and apartment buildings crimped into the coastal desert dunes, 50km south of Lima. Between 1953 and 2002 Weberhofer carefully catalogued and organised his own archives; today the Weberhofer archives contain almost 800 original projects, most of them built of exceptional handmade working drawings and renderings done in different techniques, vintage negatives and photographs of models, site work and final occupancy. They are kept in a basement, ready to be rediscovered, waiting to see the light again to show us the way back to the fearless heroic years of Latin American modernism. c
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1 At the 1959 Annual Meeting of the National Association of Home Builders held in Chicago, and then at their Housing Centre in Washington, DC.
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