Fernando Lara

Fernando Luiz Lara, "Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2024)

Kevin Vu interviewing @fernandolara.bsky.social about his book 'Spatial Theories for the Americas: Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism' on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Ha llegado la hora de desamericanizar el mundo La civilización universal que ofrecía Estados Unidos solo era un espejismo. Su desaparición es posiblemente más esclarecedora y trascendental que la desaparición del espejismo comunista en 1991. Casi ...

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How much more in your face can it be?

"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."

My conversation with Kelvin Vu newbooksnetwork.com/spatial-theo...

Faces & Places — dodomu gallery

Three of my watercolors from the Pine Street series are at the virtual exhibition “Faces and Places” at Dodomu Gallery.

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Check them out and let me know what you think.

I heard this story but the villain was Collin Rowe.

What the U.S. Can Learn About Democracy From Latin America A new history of the Western Hemisphere suggests that our southern neighbors may hold lessons for American political movements.

A new book by Greg Grandin “upends the idea of Latin America as perpetual victim, instead chronicling a tradition of leaders who have consistently fought for the social good,” Carolina Miranda writes.

Adam Thirlwell · Hero of Our People: On Mário de Andrade Macunaíma has become a myth. It says something complicated about Brazil, but also about what modernism meant. And...

‘For Andrade and his novel, it’s as if the Indigenous is the site of the authentically surreal: it possesses what Europe wants.’

Adam Thirlwell on Mário de Andrade’s ‘Macunaíma’, which looks to Amazonian myth as a way to conceive of 20th-century Brazilian society:
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Online Book Talk: Fernando Luiz Lara, Spatial Theories for the Americas form Online Book Talk: Fernando Luiz Lara, Spatial Theories for the Americas form

Join us online tomorrow 14th May at 9am AEST for a talk by @fernandolara.bsky.social on his recent book Spatial Theories for the Americas @upittpress.bsky.social Delighted also to have Tooran Alizadeh join as respondent. Really looking forward to this. Register here: tinyurl.com/m5a5t24e

"Faith Ministers are BLOCKING the entrance to the ICE Detention Center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last week."

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Today @zachmortice.bsky.social has an update on the ACSA's decision to nuke its own flagship journal while exercising the last acceptable form of racism in America (anti-Palestinianism). As he notes, they even hired a GOP/RJC law firm to justify their decision.
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The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journal’s forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issue’s cancellation, we’ve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.

In the latest on this, the JAE editorial board is stepping down over the ACSA board's censorship. Kudos to them.

Ben Franklin would be proud.

46º Coloquio de Arquitectura Indígena | Teorías espaciales para las Américas: contrapesos para cinco siglos de eurocentrismo – ARQA ARQA, el Coloquio de Nueva Arquitectura Indígena, la Universidad Nacional de Misiones y la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán invitan a participar del 46º encuentro del "Coloquio Virtual de Arquitectura ...

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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

Very unfortunate that one of the only welcoming and radical institutions in architecture (the JAE) is being detonated by a bunch of MAGA sympathizers on the ACSA board www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Brazil Stood Up for Its Democracy. Why Didn’t the U.S.? Jair Bolsonaro was made to answer for trying to overturn an election.

"Brazil has demonstrated how democracies that value themselves defend themselves," Quico Toro writes. "America could have done the same."

If the US Congress had had a spine back in 2021.

Off to England in a few hours for 3 events: books talks at Cambridge (Thursday Feb 13), and Newcastle (Friday Feb 12) and a debate in Cambridge tomorrow about Architecture in Africa and Latin America.

"It is no coincidence that the new phase of American debt imperialism has also been accompanied by the rise of the evangelical right, who-in defiance of almost all previously existing Christian theology-have enthusiastically embraced the doctrine of "supply-side economics," that creating money and effectively giving it to the rich is the most Biblically appropriate way to bring about national prosperity." . - David Graeber

“Maybe architects need to watch The Brutalist and expel from their system what remains of their mythology of pure creation and then, along with Architecton’s de Lucchi, work outwards from their fragility.” Great movie review by @jeremytill.bsky.social

Inviting the Princeton community to my book talk, March 4.

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Thank you Penn State for inviting me to speak yesterday. Now back to Philly for another conversation on the centrality of our archives.

Stuckeman Architecture Lecture: "How Canonical Architectural Histories Erased the Americas" by Fernando Lara - College of Arts & Architecture Stuckeman Architecture Lecture: "How Canonical Architectural Histories Erased the Americas" by Fernando Lara

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I was today years old when I lived through my first earthquake: 6.3 here in Chile. Airport structure shakes but no apparent damage.

Next stops of the book tour after that: Penn State January 23; Cambridge UK February 13; Princeton Midia and Modernity Seminar March 4; Coloquio Nueva Arquitectura Indigena de las Americas March 10; and Yale Urban Studies April 7.

Just arrived in Chile for 5 intense days: Book talks at Universidad de Chile (today 5pm) and Universidad de Las Americas (Friday 9am). Visit to Talca on Tuesday and Docomomo Conference Wed-Thu.

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Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools - Columbia GSAPP Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

We're cohosting an event this Saturday w/ the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University! Join us for a day-long colloquium focused on repair in architecture + planning education. How can we accelerate academia’s adaptation to the new exigencies of our planet?

Free and open to the public:

Response to coups by elected leaders:

- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens

- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics

- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court