In this talk, Professor of Architecture Fernando Lara, University of Texas-Austin, will explore the similarities, influences, and cultural context of modern architecture in Latin
America. Joined by Assistant Professor Ana Maria Leon, U-M History of Art, Professor Lara will discuss the importance of Latin American architecture and the interesting hybridization with European traditions in contemporary practice. In the second half of
the 20th century, modern architectures in Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil have been
extremely influential throughout the world, yet the Eurocentric history of modern architecture in the Americas has not fully explored those influences, often relegating them to a secondary status. Professor Lara's exhibition Modern Architecture in Latin America: The Other of the Other on view in the Duderstadt Gallery in the Duderstadt Center on North Campus, November 18-December 2, 2016.