Víctor Pimentel Gurmendi y el patrimonio monumental

Texts by noted academic Víctor Pimentel Gurmend (Peru 1928), considered in the most outstanding of his generation in the defense and conservation of the cultural heritage of Peru. Graduated as architect in the then National School of Engineers of Lima (1953), and soon after completing a specialization in Restoration in Rome (1957) he began the publication of articles of his specialty, a work that has not interrupted since. The book comprises those texts organized in in five sections that include memories, concepts and critiques, history of restoration and chronicles. A prologue documents his professional and personal biography. The edition is accompanied with the graphic material of the original articles. Texts were selected, compiled, induced and commented by José Beingolea. "In the 1950's, Victor Pimentel emerges with talents as an artist and architect that allow him to see what ignorance does not see. A sensibility that he has and allows him and not others, to discover the crime and draw a task that Peruvian culture should not forget. As a project of life, he is armed with theoretical and practical tools, here and in Europe, not only to stop the barbarity, but to reverse it, and thus participate in the salvation of that which should always be valued and preserved." (HKB Translation) --Page 7.