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Fernando Luiz Lara is a Brazilian-born architect, academic, and author.

Biography

Born in Brazil, Lara studied at Federal University of Minas Gerais and graduated with Bachelor of Architecture in 1993. He continued his education at Federal University of Minas Gerais and completed Master of Science in 1996. He completed his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2001.

In 2008, his book, The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil, was published. The book was reviewed by Adrian Forty in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

In 2015, he published, Modern Architecture in Latin America, the first survey to address the region. The book was reviewed in multiple journals, including The Hispanic American Historical Review, Bitacora, Architectural Record, and others.

Between 2012 and 2015, Lara was chair of the Brazil Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

In 2018, Lara became the director of University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture's doctoral program in architecture. He is currently the Potter Rose Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.

His work was exhibited at the São Paulo Bienalle of Architecture and the Kubitschek Museum.

Bibliography

Books written

• The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil (2008)
• Latitudes II (2014)
• Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology and Utopia, with Luis Carranza, (2015)
• Excepcionalidade do Modernismo Brasileiro (2018)
• Street Matters, A Critical History of Twentieth-Century Urban Policy in Brazil (2022)

Books edited

• Latin America: Thoughs, Nhamerica Platform/Romano Guerra Editora
• Lelé: dialogues with neutra and prouvé
• Critical Readings
• Architecture and Nature by Abilio Guerra
• Ode to the Void by Carlos Teixeira
• Risky Spaces by Otávio Leonídio

Monographs

• Boldarini e Associados (2019)
• Arquitetos Associados (2017)
• Horizontes (2017)

References

1. ^ Kimmelman, Michael (March 11, 2021). "How Can Blackness Construct America?". The New York Times.
2. Longoria, Rafael (October 31, 2015). "Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia by Luis E. Carranza, Fernando L. Lara (review)". Arris. 26 (1): 70–71. doi:10.1353/arr.2015.0007. S2CID 244122836 – via Project MUSE.
3. ^ "Fernando Lara". soa.utexas.edu.
4. "Fernando Luiz Lara: A blown opportunity for Brazil". August 10, 2016.
5. ^ Forty, Adrian (December 1, 2009). "Review: The Rise of Popular Modernist Architecture in Brazil, by Fernando Luiz Lara". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 68 (4): 578–579. doi:10.1525/jsah.2009.68.4.578 – via online.ucpress.edu.
6. Siwi, Marcio (November 1, 2018). "Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia". Hispanic American Historical Review. 98 (4): 753–754. doi:10.1215/00182168-7160688. S2CID 149680500. Archived from the original on November 1, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
7. Siwi, Marcio (January 31, 2021). "The Making of New York's Avenue of the Americas: Transnational Circuits of Urban Renewal". Journal of Urban History. 47 (1): 85–110. doi:10.1177/0096144219864689. S2CID 201338691.
8. Parra, Michael Andrés Forero (October 7, 2020). "Exhibir arquitectura en Colombia: una historia en construcción". Bitácora Arquitectura (44): 100–107. doi:10.22201/fa.14058901p.2020.44.77156. S2CID 225123543 – via www.revistas.unam.mx.
9. "Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia | 2015-05-16 | Architectural Record". Architectural Record.
10. Geraghty, Niall H.D.; Massidda, Adriana Laura (2019). "Introduction". Creative Spaces: 1–28. ISBN 9781908857484. JSTOR j.ctvp2n322.5.
11. Dias, Valéria (January 23, 2020). Humanas, Ciências (ed.). "De capital da esperança à cidade com problemas: publicações trazem diferentes leituras de Brasília" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved October 31, 2022.
12. Carranza, Luis E.; Lara, Fernando Luiz (November 3, 2021). "1957-b. Lina Bo Bardi, São Paulo Museum of Art". Modern Architecture in Latin America. University of Texas Press. pp. 208–209. doi:10.7560/758650-066. ISBN 9780292768178. S2CID 243775913.

• Living people
• 21st-century Brazilian writers
• University of Michigan alumni
• University of Michigan faculty
• Federal University of Minas Gerais alumni
• Architects from Belo Horizonte