Lecture 2. Education of the Architect: Curricula, Transfers, and Exchanges

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Leandro Manenti, Ingrid Quintana Guerrero, Amari Peliowski


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Our North is the South: Teaching and Learning the History of Architecture from the South

This talk traces the history of the formation of the architecture discipline in Latin America. The first section of the lecture addresses the development of curricula through a chronological approach. We start with the transmission of architectural knowledge in the colonial period, illustrated by the circulation of architectural treatises, the Jesuit presence and the role of military engineers. We continue with the creation of national states, addressing the creation of the faculties of architecture of universities in Colombia, Chile and Brazil. We end with some milestones of the second half of the 20th century, describing the experiences of the Argentine “Escuelita”, the Chilean “Open City” and the Brazilian student movements. The second section of the lecture discusses transatlantic and interregional transfers, including the relationship between Latin America and the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier's Latin American collaborators, and foreign contributions to Paraguayan education.

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