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Approaching the design for a university building in the Peruvian capital of Lima, Dublin-based Grafton Architects turned to their belief that architecture is the “new geography.” The firm’s founding directors, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, also wanted the University of Engineering and Technology, or UTEC—a new single-­building institution underwritten by the philanthropic Hochschild family—to capture the essence of the Latin American city, which lies just 12 degrees below the equator, sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and a desert.