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Patricio del Real

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Specialization: Modern Architecture

Patricio del Real is known for his expertise in the field of architecture and architecture history, with a focus in the Americas. His work examines the intersections of buildings, politics and cultural identity. As an...

Research Seminar with Patricio del Real on Lucio Costa

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Patricio del Real returns to the construction of Brazilianness in architecture galvanized by the modernist conversion of architect and theoretician Lucio Costa & draws a larger intellectual European geography that hides behind Costa’s well-known turn to...

Professor Patricio del Real: Does Latin America Exist? Notes from the trenches.

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Presentation and panel discussion on the eve of the opening of the exhibition The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930, curated by Maristella Casciato and Idurre Alonso . More information here.

Lecture: Professor Patricio del Real "Not Fit for the Nation. Modern and Folk Art Architectures and the Politics of Exhibiting Mexicanidad "

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As part of the College Art Association's Annual Conference, Professor Patricio del Real will be speaking on the title "Not Fit for the Nation. Modern and Folk Art Architectures and the Politics of Exhibiting Mexicanidad." Please see the CAA's Conference...

Lecture: Patricio del Real, "Re-Negotiating the value of Latin American Architecture at MoMA: Standards, Exhibitions and the Collection in the Early Postwar"

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Professor del Real will be speaking at the colloquium "Decolonizing the Spatial History of the Americas" at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.

Professor Patricio del Real presents at the 17th National Conference on Planning History

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Professor Patricio del Real will present on transnational connections between Brazil and the U.S. in the panel: “American Connections/American Comparisons: Nationalism, Modernism, and Social Welfare in North and South American City Planning History” at...

"Why Architecture Belongs in the Museum" lecture series: Barry Bergdoll, moderated by Patricio del Real

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This event is virtual, to register click here. Speaker: Barry Bergdoll, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Moderated by: Patricio del Real, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Why...

Modern and Reformed: Carlos Jiménez + Patricio Del Real in Conversation

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A one-on-one conversation between Professor of Architecture Carlos Jiménez NA, principal of Carlos Jiménez Studio, and Patricio Del Real, PhD, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. The evening will feature an overview...

In Conversation | Fabiola López-Durán and Patricio del Real on “Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement”

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Fabiola López-Durán and Patricio del Real will discuss the work of Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. This program is in conjunction with the museum’s multichannel film installation Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi—A Marvellous...

"Why Architecture Belongs in the Museum" lecture series: Giovanna Borasi, moderated by Patricio del Real

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This event is virtual, to register click here. Speaker: Giovanna Borasi, Director, Canadian Center for Architecture Moderated by: Patricio del Real, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University This conversation series is...

New Publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art”, by Patricio del Real

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Professor Patricio del Real’s new publication “Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art” will be published at the end of August. The book provides “a nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art’s carefully...

Lecture Series: "Why Architecture Belongs in the Museum" - May 5th: Patricio del Real

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ART, FILM, & CULTURE PROGRAM presents: WHY ARCHITECTURE BELONGS IN THE MUSEUM Register here. This conversation series is part of Curating Architecture Across the Americas (CAAA), an initiative that brings together institutions, curators, and scholars to...