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Fernando Lara

@fernandolara.bsky.social

Brazilian-American Author of Spatial Theories for the Americas, Activist, Architect, Husband, Father, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

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I heard this story but the villain was Collin Rowe.

02.09.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€œupends 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.

30.06.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Adam Thirlwell Β· Hero of Our People: On MΓ‘rio de Andrade MacunaΓ­ma has become a myth. It says something complicated about Brazil, but also about what modernism meant. And...

β€˜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 MΓ‘rio de Andrade’s β€˜MacunaΓ­ma’, which looks to Amazonian myth as a way to conceive of 20th-century Brazilian society:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

15.05.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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

13.05.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"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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12.05.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2846    πŸ” 904    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 90
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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...

04.04.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

11.03.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8

In 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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ben Franklin would be proud.

07.03.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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46ΒΊ Coloquio de Arquitectura IndΓ­gena | TeorΓ­as espaciales para las AmΓ©ricas: contrapesos para cinco siglos de eurocentrismo – ARQA ARQA, el Coloquio de Nueva Arquitectura IndΓ­gena, la Universidad Nacional de Misiones y la Universidad AutΓ³noma de YucatΓ‘n invitan a participar del 46ΒΊ encuentro del "Coloquio Virtual de Arquitectura ...

arqa.com/agenda/congr...

06.03.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

www.instagram.com/p/DGwS0ElOX9...

04.03.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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, ZoΓ© 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...

02.03.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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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."

23.02.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1208    πŸ” 310    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 34

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

19.02.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

11.02.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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."
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  - David Graeber

"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€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

β€œMaybe 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

31.01.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Fernando Luiz Lara: "American Roots of Cartesian Concepts" Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton UniversityΒ Fernando Luiz Lara"American Roots of Cartesian Concepts”[Response Sergio Villanueva Preston]Tuesday, March 4, 2025 @5pm ETN107 (School of A...

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

mandm.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

27.01.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

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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

arts.psu.edu/events/stuck...

16.01.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I 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€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

09.12.2024 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

#spatialtheoriesfortheamericas

09.12.2024 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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:

04.12.2024 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

03.12.2024 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 16766    πŸ” 4834    πŸ’¬ 283    πŸ“Œ 300
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Next Monday at Universidad de Chile

02.12.2024 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 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. I’m old enough to remember when this was the case.

23.11.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Right-Wingification of UT Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools

β€œIntellectual diversity is essentially a fake problem that is used to create cover for ideologically committed, far-right faculty who are not intellectually honest.” Craig Campbell, UT anthropology professor.

www.austinchronicle.com/news/2024-11...

23.11.2024 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1451    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 57
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The DeArq journal issue 361 β€œBarajar el Canon / Shuffling the Canon” 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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oi Robert.

22.11.2024 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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