Public lectures and interviews.

Professor Lara has lectured in over 50 institutions in 22 countries, including 12 in the Americas which are central to his research. Dissemination has always been an important component of his work and so is expanding the definition of architecture to parts of the built environment not sufficiently covered by traditional scholarship.

Invited lectures

 

“Supersudaca: A Practice of Friendship”, Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam, February 29, 2024.

“Final Remarks of Symposium Nuestro Norte es el Sur”, Harvard Graduate School of Design, December 1st, 2023.

“Structures and typologies of Latin American and Caribbean cities”, opening keynote speech at La Ciudad Latinoamericana: de la dependencia a la fragmentacion”, Stanford University / FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, October 23, 2023

“What it means to decolonize the history of modern architecture”, University of Minnesota School of Architecture lecture series, November 7, 2022.

“Que significa decolonizar la historia de la arquitectura moderna?” Keynote address at 20th Foro de Historia y Critica de la Arqutetura Moderna, Queretaro, Mexico, October 14, 2022.

“Pensar la Arquitectura de Las Americas: Conceptos desde el Sur”, Series of three lectures for the faculty of Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, May 17, 18 and 19, 2022.

“Can we Decolonize Architecture?” Yale School of Architecture, Architecture and Modernity II: Theories and Projects, April 20, 2022.

“Cinco conceptos para decolonizar la enseñanza de arquitectura”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Maestria en Historia de Arquitectura, October 15, 2021.

“Five frameworks for decolonizing architectural education”, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, October 4, 2021

Abstración y Privilégio”, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, August 13, 2021.

“Unlearning Modernism: Mid-Century Legacies and Urban Futures in Brazil”, Princeton University, Mellon initiative, April 16, 2021.

Five Radical Concepts for Architecture in the Americas”, University of Southern California, February 3, 2021.

Excepcionalidad del Modernismo Brasileño”, conferencia en la Maestria en Historia de Arquitetura, Universidad de Buenos Aires FADU-UBA, October 2, 2020.

““Modernity/Coloniality and architecture”, University of Pennsylvania, PhD Program in Architecture, September 28, 2020.

“Nuevos Conceptos para enseñaza de diseño en las Americas”, ASINEA, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, October 31st, 2019.

“Conceitos Espaciais para Turtle Island e Abya Yala”, São Paulo, Escola da Cidade, August 7th, 2019.

“Teorizando espacio en las Americas”, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, July 2nd, 2019.

“Waldemar Cordeiro between Max Bill and Burle Marx, invited talk at Princeton Museum of Art, Princeton University, Mar 29, 2019.

“Pensando o espaço americano”, two inaugural lectures in Brazil, Universidade FUMEC, May 8th, and Faculdade Izabela Hendrix, August 9th, 2018.

Latin American Architecture: The other of the other”, invited lecture at Garage Museum, Moscow, April 19, 2018.

“Latin American Architecture: The other of the other”, invited lecture at Mario Romañach and Latin American Modernism, UPenn, April 16, 2018.

“Pensando o Espaço Americano”, keynote speech at III SAMA – Seminário de Arquitetura Moderna na Amazônia, Federal University of Pará, Belém, March 22 2018.

“Latin American Urbanism: the concept of Off Planning”, NTUA University, Athens, Greece, March 12, 2018.

“Popular Modernism in Brazil”, presentation at Amateurism Across the Arts conference, University of California Berkeley, March 9, 2018.

“Architectural Education for the 21st century”, lecture at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 13, 2017.

“Urbanismo Moderno en América Latina”, lecture at Universidad Piloto, Bogota, August 8, 2016.

Aula Inaugural: “O Outro do outro, arquitetura moderna na América Latina”, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, March 7, 2016.

Conferencia Magistral “La singularidad de los espacios en las Américas: compromiso y innovación” Coloquio Vivienta Latinoamericana, Morelia, Michoacan, November 25, 2015.

Ilhas não mais”, invited lectures to promote the book Modern Architecture in Latin America: Austin, March 2, 2015; Fortaleza, May 7th, 2015; Madrid, June 11th, 2015 (ETSAM); Milano, June 17th, 2015 (Politecnico at Piacenza); Munchen, June 25th, 2015 (TUM); Rio de Janeiro, July 31st (UFRJ) and August 1st (Studio X); São Paulo, August 12th (Escola da Cidade) and São Carlos August 13th (IAU-USP), 2015; Fort Lauderdale, September 7th (Florida Atlantic University); Monterrey, MX, September 21st, (Universidad Autonoma Nuevo Leon); São Paulo, October 6th (Universidade Mackenzie), Recife, DOCOMOMO Brasil, April 20th, 2016; João Pessoa, Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil, July 25th, 2016; Ann Arbor, November 18, 2016 (University of Michigan); Montevideo, March 17th, 2017 (Universidad de la Republica); Buenos Aires, April 11th, 2017 (CEDODAL); Belem (Universidade Federal do Pará) May 1st, 2017; Cuenca, November 30th, 2017.

Interviews

 

Entrevista com João Marcos Coelho - 100 anos da Semana de 22, July 2021

ACSA Conversation on Post Professional Programs, April 2021

Fernando Lara y Felipe Hernández hablando de decolonización y arquitectura, Universidad del Valle, Febrero 2021

Fernando Lara e Nilce Aravecchia na UFSC, September 2020.

Entrevista com Arquicast, August 2020.

Prof. Lara talking about COVID-19 at Grupo Projetar (in Portuguese), and at Gibbs College, Oklahoma (in English)

Jornadas HISTAA (Unievrsidad de Cueca), Fernando Lara & Silvia Arango, 2020

Conversas Latinoamericanas, FJAL, March 2020

Entrevista com Adriana Nascimento, Despina, 2018

Theorizing Spaces of the Americas, CAAD, UTexas, 2017

Conversa com Marcio Cotrim, 2017

Quae Sera Tamen, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, 2012