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Latino Identity in Architecture – Part 1

 In this two-part series on Latino identity in architecture, Tracing Architecture dives into the profound ways the narrative of history and our own heritage shapes design. Part one features a thought-provoking conversation between José Bernardi, Associate Professor at ASU and author and editor of Adaptive Reuse in Latin America, and Fernando Luiz Lara, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism. Together, they explore the historical narrative of the European “encounter with” or better identified as the invasion of the Americas, challenging the misconception of an “empty land” or “new world”; a world without a history or culture; and examining the lasting impact of this narrative on the urban fabric, and architectural identity of Latin America. This series was created in collaboration with the AIA Phoenix Metro EDIB Committee (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging).

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Guest Contributor: Fernando Luiz Lara

Fernando Luiz Lara works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with an emphasis on the dissemination of design ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. Framed by decolonial theories, Lara has written widely about issues that pertain to the built environment of our continent.

His latest publications include Street Matters: A Critical History of 20th Century Urban Policy in Brazil (with Ana Paula Koury, 2022); Excepcionalidad del Modernismo Brasileño (2019); Modern Architecture in Latin America (with Luis Carranza, 2015); and The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil (2008). Among the many books he edited are Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas (2022) and Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas (with Felipe Hernandez, 2023). His forthcoming book, Spatial Theories for the Americas, is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Fernando Lara is the editor of Latin America: Thoughts, a series published by Romano Guerra Editora, and a member of the editorial boards for Platform Space, Revista DeArq (Univesidad de los Andes, Colombia), Revista Pós (FAU USP, Brazil), and Arquitecturas Del Sur (Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile).

Before joining the Weitzman School, Lara was the director of the PhD Program in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin (2018-23), and chair of the Brazil center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies in that same University (2012-15). He has also taught at the University of Michigan (2004-09) and was a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, in 2017.

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Guest Contributor: José Bernardi

José Bernardi is an associate professor at the Design School at Arizona State University, where he was the coordinator of Interior Design and the Master of Interior Architecture. He has published several essays on the relationship between design and ideas in cultural settings. Among them is “Luis Barragán: Architecture as Revelation,” in The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: A Reader, edited by Renata Hejduk and Jim Williamson (Routledge 2011). His essay “Revolution and Revelation: The Monastery at Tlalpan by Luis Barragán,” in Building the Kingdom, edited by Kate Jordan and Ayla Lepine (Pickering & Chatto Publishers, forthcoming), will be published in 2016. He contributed several entries on architecture in Latin America to the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture, edited by R. Stephen Sennott (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2004). With the support of a Graham Foundation grant, he completed his research and published the essay “Le Corbusier’s Curutchet House.” In the fall of 2002 he was a Fellow Resident at the Charles Moore Center for the Study of Place, Austin.

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