Latin America in Construction, Revisited: Architecture 1955–1980

Eleven years after the Museum of Modern Art’s Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980, this exhibition revisits the architectural and urban transformations that shaped Latin America during a period of intense modernization, political change, and social experimentation. Developed by S.Arc undergraduate researchers as a critical reexamination of MoMA’s 2015 exhibition, Latin America in Construction, Revisited returns to its themes, projects, and geographic contexts while reconsidering how the architecture of the period can be interpreted from the perspective of the present.

Through the study and reinterpretation of selected buildings, urban projects, architects, and ideas, the exhibition explores how architecture responded to questions of development, modernization, identity, housing, infrastructure, education, and rapidly transforming cities across Latin America. Rather than simply reconstructing the original exhibition, the students expand and question its narratives, bringing new perspectives to the projects and contexts represented. The exhibition asks what these architectural experiments mean today and how revisiting this history can contribute to contemporary discussions about architecture, urbanism, and the social and environmental challenges facing Latin American cities.

Opening Reception: 12 p.m. Sept. 16

Gallery Talk: 12:15 p.m. Sept. 25

Undergraduate Researchers:

• Jesus Morales
• Kimberly Sosa
• Jo Aguilar
• Caleb McWorther
• Valerie Gallo
• Yadhira Martinez
• Jim Garcia Espino
• Eduardo Gaspar-Hernandez
• Leonardo Ruiz-Loaiza
• Jacob Gomez

Faculty Advisor and Exhibition Curator: 

• Silvina Lopez Barrera