Precisamos de uma arquitetura política para resistir a uma arquitetura civilizatória

Fernando Luiz  Lara

doi:10.37916/arq.urb.vi29.480

Authors

Fernando Luiz Lara https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7743-6441

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37916/arq.urb.vi29.480

Keywords:

Architecture, Decolonization, Political Resistance

Abstract

Architecture has always been a tool for spatial control. The civilizing mission imbedded in our profession comes with a layer of coloniality that we need to first be aware of and then subvert. Arturo Escobar’s discussion of colonization as something inherent to modernization explains that our civilization and our civilizing processes are directly responsible for the social evils that circle us today. The question that comes regards the role of architecture as both a tool and a result of such modernization/colonization and the possible antidotes that I believe lies in the political realm.

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Author Biography

Fernando Luiz Lara

Fernando Luiz Lara works on theorizing spaces of the Americas with emphasis on the dissemination of architecture and planning ideas beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries. In his several articles Prof. Lara has discussed the modern and the contemporary architecture of our continent, its meaning, context and social-economic insertion. His latest publications include Excepcionalidad del Modernismo Brasileño; Modern Architecture in Latin America (Hamilton Award runner up 2015) and Quid Novi (Anparq best book award 2016). Prof. Lara holds the Potter Rose Professorship in Urban Planning at the University of Texas at Austin where he currently serves as Director of the PhD Program in Architecture.

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López-Durán, Fabiola. Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity. University of Texas Press, 2018.