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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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.
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.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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.
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‘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:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Thirlwell on Mário de Andrade’s ‘Macunaíma’, which looks to Amazonian myth as a way to conceive of 20th-century Brazilian society:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
‘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:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Thirlwell on Mário de Andrade’s ‘Macunaíma’, which looks to Amazonian myth as a way to conceive of 20th-century Brazilian society:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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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
Online Book Talk: Fernando Luiz Lara, Spatial Theories for the Americas form
Online Book Talk: Fernando Luiz Lara, Spatial Theories for the Americas form
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May 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
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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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May 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"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...
www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...
April 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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...
www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...
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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.
March 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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.
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In the latest on this, the JAE editorial board is stepping down over the ACSA board's censorship. Kudos to them.
March 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
In the latest on this, the JAE editorial board is stepping down over the ACSA board's censorship. Kudos to them.
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Ben Franklin would be proud.
Thousands at Philadelphia City hall supporting this thing called “Science” - whatever that is it sounds pretty cool! 😎
March 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ben Franklin would be proud.
March 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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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...
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...
www.archpaper.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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...
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"Brazil has demonstrated how democracies that value themselves defend themselves," Quico Toro writes. "America could have done the same."
Brazil Stood Up for Its Democracy. Why Didn’t the U.S.?
Jair Bolsonaro was made to answer for trying to overturn an election.
www.theatlantic.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Brazil has demonstrated how democracies that value themselves defend themselves," Quico Toro writes. "America could have done the same."
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If the US Congress had had a spine back in 2021.
February 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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.
February 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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.
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“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
Here is my review of two films: The Brutalist and Architecton. Spoiler alert, I really like one and really dislike the other. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyti...
FROM FUTILITY TO HUBRIS AND BACK AGAIN
Partial reviews of the films Architecton and The Brutalist
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January 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“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
Thank you Penn State for inviting me to speak yesterday. Now back to Philly for another conversation on the centrality of our archives.
January 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thank you Penn State for inviting me to speak yesterday. Now back to Philly for another conversation on the centrality of our archives.
I was today years old when I lived through my first earthquake: 6.3 here in Chile. Airport structure shakes but no apparent damage.
December 14, 2024 at 12:48 AM
I was today years old when I lived through my first earthquake: 6.3 here in Chile. Airport structure shakes but no apparent damage.
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
#spatialtheoriesfortheamericas
December 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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
#spatialtheoriesfortheamericas
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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:
Free and open to the public:
Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
www.arch.columbia.edu
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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:
Free and open to the public:
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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
- 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
December 3, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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
- 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
December 2, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Next Monday at Universidad de Chile
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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.
November 23, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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.