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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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."

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Three of my watercolors from the Pine Street series are at the virtual exhibition “Faces and Places” at Dodomu Gallery. www.dodomugallery.com/exhibitions/... Check them out and let me know what you think.

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Faces & Places — dodomu gallery

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/07/2025

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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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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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/05/2025

‘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...

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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...

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Histories of Architecture and Built Environments group USyd @habeg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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Online Book Talk: Fernando Luiz Lara, Spatial Theories for the Americas form

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"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." Posted by @scootercaster.com on "X" at 1:19 pm EDT

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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...

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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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John Hill @archidose.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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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J.J. Abbott @jjabbott.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Ben Franklin would be proud.

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/02/2025

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

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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.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“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

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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:

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Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools - Columbia GSAPP

Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Next Monday at Universidad de Chile

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OldRetiredLady @oldretiredlady.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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.

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Grant Hayden @granthayden.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

“Intellectual 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...

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The Right-Wingification of UT

Texas targets liberal enemies within one of the top U.S. schools

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The DeArq journal issue 361 “Barajar 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.

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Platform Space is here now. Send me your article ideas, we would love to publish your research.

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Inviting Providence friends to my lecture tomorrow at RISD. Next book talks Universidad de Chile on December 10, Cambridge UK on February 13 and Colóquio de Nueva Arquitectura Indígena en las Americas (on-line) on March 10. involved.risd.edu/event/10726743

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Fernando Lara: How Canonical Histories of Architecture Erased the Americas

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

www.instagram.com/p/DCjh40yO0q...

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Dear friends, I am very happy to share that my next book has a cover and a publication date of November 2024, as part of the University of Pittsburgh Press series on Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment. Allow me to say that this is certainly my most ambitious book so far,

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Today @platform_space, my discussion of the spatial dimension of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. www.platformspace.net/home/paulo-f...

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PLATFORM: Paulo Freire as an Antidote to the Hegemony of Abstraction

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Hard to express in words how delighted I am to see Sara Zwede leading those major projects. She is the future we want for the built environment design disciplines. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/a...

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Very proud to have produced this book, summarizing 20 years of Supersudacas work. The launching will be in Amsterdam on February 29, a special homage to Felix Madrazo. Other book launches will happen soon, in a city close to you. nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/in...

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Incomplete Works by Supersudaca & Fernando Lara

Presentation of the book Incomplete Works, on the Supersudaca network of architects. With short talks and a tribute to founder Felix Madrazo by Supersudaca group members, friends and colleagues.

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Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Many thanks to Revista Virus for the honor of being interviewed. Available in my 3 languages: PT, EN, ES. vnomads.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com/ojs/index.php/…

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