Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas

Fernando Luiz Lara holds the R.G. Roessner Centennial Professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Chair of the Brazil Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (2012-2015), and as the Director of the PhD Program in Architecture (since 2018). His latest books are Excepcionalidad del Modernismo Brasileño (2019) and Modern Architecture in Latin America (with L. Carranza, 2015).

Felipe Hernández teaches at the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he serves as Director of the Centre for Latin America Studies and as Director of Studies at King’s College. He is the author of two books, Beyond Modernist Masters (2009) and Bhabha for Architects (2010), and the editor of Transculturations (2005), Rethinking the Informal City (2010), and Marginal Urbanism (2017).