I heard this story but the villain was Collin Rowe.
02.09.2025 23:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@fernandolara.bsky.social
Brazilian-American Author of Spatial Theories for the Americas, Activist, Architect, Husband, Father, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
I heard this story but the villain was Collin Rowe.
02.09.2025 23:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A new book by Greg Grandin βupends the idea of Latin America as perpetual victim, instead chronicling a tradition of leaders who have consistently fought for the social good,β Carolina Miranda writes.
30.06.2025 23:15 β π 32 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0βFor Andrade and his novel, itβs as if the Indigenous is the site of the authentically surreal: it possesses what Europe wants.β
Adam Thirlwell on MΓ‘rio de Andradeβs βMacunaΓmaβ, which looks to Amazonian myth as a way to conceive of 20th-century Brazilian society:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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
13.05.2025 11:11 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0"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.
www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...
The ACSA suspended its bylaws to form a secret, unelected committee to review and advise it on our journalβs forthcoming issue on Palestine. After a year of bullshit that ended in the issueβs cancellation, weβve exhausted our options for salvaging it. Our entire editorial board resigns.
11.03.2025 11:27 β π 114 π 34 π¬ 8 π 8In the latest on this, the JAE editorial board is stepping down over the ACSA board's censorship. Kudos to them.
11.03.2025 11:49 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Ben Franklin would be proud.
07.03.2025 16:50 β π 26 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1www.instagram.com/p/DGwS0ElOX9...
04.03.2025 00:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very 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...
02.03.2025 14:46 β π 55 π 18 π¬ 2 π 1"Brazil has demonstrated how democracies that value themselves defend themselves," Quico Toro writes. "America could have done the same."
23.02.2025 15:16 β π 1208 π 310 π¬ 53 π 34If the US Congress had had a spine back in 2021.
19.02.2025 00:46 β π 38 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Off 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.
11.02.2025 20:24 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"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
30.01.2025 20:13 β π 183 π 64 π¬ 2 π 2βMaybe architects need to watch The Brutalist and expel from their system what remains of their mythology of pure creation and then, along with Architectonβs de Lucchi, work outwards from their fragility.β Great movie review by @jeremytill.bsky.social
31.01.2025 01:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Inviting the Princeton community to my book talk, March 4.
mandm.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
Thank you Penn State for inviting me to speak yesterday. Now back to Philly for another conversation on the centrality of our archives.
24.01.2025 13:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was today years old when I lived through my first earthquake: 6.3 here in Chile. Airport structure shakes but no apparent damage.
14.12.2024 00:48 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Next 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.
09.12.2024 13:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Just 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.
#spatialtheoriesfortheamericas
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 academiaβs 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
Next Monday at Universidad de Chile
02.12.2024 13:54 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The fact that billionaires exist is evidence that our economic priorities are upside down. Basic human needs should not be for profit, but paid for by society as a common good through progressive taxation. Iβm old enough to remember when this was the case.
23.11.2024 15:38 β π 80 π 19 π¬ 0 π 2βIntellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.β Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...
The DeArq journal issue 361 βBarajar el Canon / Shuffling the Canonβ edited by @ingridquibtana, @fernandomartineznespral and yours truly, with contributions by @marcosalazarvalle @ruth_verde_zein @ivo_giroto won today the Publication Prize of the @bienalquito. Congrats to all @revistadearq.
23.11.2024 03:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oi Robert.
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