Nomen Nescio

Nomen Nescio stands for an unnamed person, the used abbreviation is N.N. It comes from Latin vocabularies nomen, “name”, and nescio, “I do not know” (from nescire, “not to know”), and it literally means, “I do not know the name.”

The work that was submitted from Bolivia without mentioning the author was a Sports facility in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. The most probable candidate is Emilio Villanueva (28.11.1884 in La Paz – 14.05.1970 in La Paz), one of the Bolivia’s most innovative and distinguished architects from the first half of the 20th century. He was educated at the University of Santiago de Chile. Since 1909, he was involved in the design and construction of various public buildings in his home town of La Paz. During a stay in Paris, he was influenced by modern European architecture later blending it with motifs of the local heritage. Villanueva was appointed rector of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres and founded the affiliated school of architecture. In 1929, he planned the Estadio Hernando Siles, the country’s largest sports complex, which was opened in 1930, the year he became Minister of Education in the Bolivian cabinet. It was one of the first South American arenas built with reinforced concrete, and is the highest altitude international arena. In 1977, it was completely remodeled.