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.

‘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...

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

"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

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...

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.

In the latest on this, the JAE editorial board is stepping down over the ACSA board's censorship. Kudos to them.

Ben Franklin would be proud.

Very unfortunate that one of the only welcoming and radical institutions in architecture (the JAE) is being detonated by a bunch of MAGA sympathizers on the ACSA board www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

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

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

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.

“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

Inviting the Princeton community to my book talk, March 4. mandm.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Thank you Penn State for inviting me to speak yesterday. Now back to Philly for another conversation on the centrality of our archives.

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

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

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:

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

Next Monday at Universidad de Chile

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.

“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...

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.

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

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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The book is here!

Our Penn/SEU workshop featured at CCTV. content-static.cctvnews.cctv.com/snow-book/vi...

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,

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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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...

Tomorrow in Rotterdam nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/in...

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...

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/…

This amazing book arrived in the mail today: The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, edited by Tatiana Flores, Florência San Martin and Charlene Villasenor Black. Very grateful for the editors invitation. Ahead we go with the decolonizing effort.

Closing remarks of seminar Nuestro Norte es el Sur, today at Harvard GSD.

Isn’t she amazing? penntoday.upenn.edu/news/sociolo...?

Next week at the GSD. Thanks @anamarialeon.bsky.social and Fernando Martinez Nespral for leading this.

Environmentalism in the U.S. is always grounded more in scientific & political movements than in architecture, which explains why a new exhibition at MoMA struggles to establish the relevance of architecture to our present-day crisis. A review from Belmont Freeman: placesjournal.org/article/aest...