Abstract
The research focuses on the relationship between architecture and rituality in the Andean world, specifically in the cities of La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia, where the popular area of Aymara roots celebrates the Alasita festival characterized by the presence of miniatures that exemplify aspirationality and desires for abundance.
The buildings represented in the miniatures transcend from objects to subjects, thus they are also consolidated into references, into architectural heritage, through which social recognition is achieved for some contemporary buildings. This recognition does not necessarily correlate with the architecture promoted by state governments and Bolivian academia.
Through Alasita, the majority population makes known its horizon, its aspirations, its view of the possible city of the future, its autonomous imaginary of modernity incorporated into its cultural core.
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