The Tudors
Jan 14, 2020
3 minutes
TEXT BY Sarah Amelar
PHOTOS BY | @ESTUDIOPALMA Cristóbal Palma
The idea of serving prison time isn’t usually on an architect’s mind. But when César Becerra, a partner at 51-1 Arquitectos, in Lima, Peru, describes the constraints his firm encountered while designing a house in the city’s San Isidro district, one of the first things he says is, “If we’d harmed any of the property’s four olive trees, we could have gone to jail!”
No ordinary trees,
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