From the margins - perspectives on architecture

03/02/2021

To end on a high note this season. In this last episode, I had a great conversation with about our education as Latin American architects in the cannon, how we decolonized it and got into decolonization perspectives on our own work. We talked about the need for a new and different set of values on which to analyze architectural Latin American architecture, and not just by comparing them to American or European standards. We commented on how teaching decoloniality is still in the margins of academia. We had an interesting conversation on Fernando's article American Mirror: the Occupation of the “New World” and the Rise of Architecture as We Know it. And we talked about the future of education, podcasts, youtube channels, electronic media, etc. Episode recorded Nov 2020.
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26/01/2021

Second to last episode.
2nd part with Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch

In this second episode with Emmanuel Ortega (Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch) a researcher, curator, podcaster, and recent YouTuber (Unsettling Journeys) dedicated to uncovering the histories behind Mexican, Latin American, and Latinx identities by examining the arts (as well as the visual and mater...

02/12/2020

The standout moments of the year. Shout out to all the fans on Spotify.

02/12/2020

Not yet the end of the year, but almost...

The standout moments of the year. Shout out to all the fans on Spotify.

29/10/2020

Latest episode is out!
Please listen to this interesting conversation with Iyer Siddiqi where we discuss several topics of her research but also, about pedagogies in architecture, feminist pedagogies, the controversial topic of the canon and, structuring courses that allow a diversity of knowledge, approaches, and perspectives.

‎Show from the margins - perspectives on architecture, Ep Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi - histories of architecture, modernity, feminist and colonial practices. - Oct 29, 2020

14/10/2020

A great conversation with Emmanuel Ortega / Babelito from Latinos Who Lunch where we talk about the journey of a Mexican scholar into American academia, and the role that the "newly discovered" need for diversity in the Ivory Tower has affected Black and Brown voices. We also talk about modernity and mobility, the role of new media in the creation of academic portfolios, and the accessibility of knowledge. How podcasts, youtube channels, and others are helping to reach larger audiences, but also how these are not yet fully accepted in traditional academic circles as accomplishments through "tenure track" i.e.

‎Show from the margins - perspectives on architecture, Ep Emmanuel Ortega / Babelito - A conversation about Latinx scholars traversing White academia, an attempt to talk about architecture, and the promise of another episode... - Oct 13, 2020

10/09/2020

In this episode, i talk to Eduardo Rega Calvo who's research and design work focus on architecture's capacity to translate, operate in, and contribute to insurgent social and political movements. Eduardo is an architect, urban designer, and researcher based in New York. He is a graduate architecture faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, where he teaches history/theory seminars, design studios and runs a summer program in Colombia. His most recent project, Architectures of Refusal aims to compile an atlas of social mobilization against capitalism, colonialism, and human rights violations by uncovering their spatial manifestations, urbanism, and architectures. We talk about decolonizing, decolonization, and anticolonization strategies in architecture and teaching architecture. Eduardo talks to us about his projects of publishing and research, and how that relates to his teaching strategies and methodologies. We discuss grassroots organization based architecture, commonspoly as a method, and the white savior complex that reigns architecture practice.

Recommendations.
Change the Wolrd Without Taking Power by John Holloway
The Rebel by Albert Camus
Commonospoly
Parasite Directed by B**g Joon Ho
Shoplifters Directed by Hirokazo Koreeda

In this episode, i talk to Eduardo Rega Calvo who's research and design work focus on architecture's capacity to translate, operate in, and contribute to insurgent social and political movements. Eduardo is an architect, urban designer, and researcher based in New York. He is a graduate architecture...

16/08/2020

Latest episode is out!

In this episode, I talk to Joey Brunner an Adjunct Professor for the Critical Ethnic Studies Program at the CCA, about his work on speculation, and practice in architecture. We talked about his research on the Border Phenomena that explores the anthropology of frontiers, and the agency of art and design at the boundary between nations. We discussed about what it is being a transborder citizen, and how this has informed his career and his teaching activities. We discussed how being from and at the border has a similar and familiar quality to q***r identities, and Joey shared his perspective of having been grown in a binational and bicultural household. We talked about, how the border has changed through time and space, and how, for example experiencing 9/11 made a huge impact in border culture. We also talked about our interests in the border environment and how we study it and analyze it from diverse but similar perspectives. We also discussed about pedagogy, about the stories and histories that we teach, and encourage our students to tell.

Recommendations.

Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum Security Detention, Ed. by Seth Michelson.

Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Ed. by Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis, Mabel O. Wilson.

The 13th - Netlfix

Just Mercy - Prime Video

Midnight Gospel - Netflix

In this episode, I talk to Jose Brunner an Adjunct Professor for the Critical Ethnic Studies Program at the CCA, about his work on speculation, and practice in architecture. We talked about his research on the Border Phenomena that explores the anthropology of frontiers, and the agency of art and de...

10/08/2020

Recorded 05/21
In this episode, I talk to Sophie Hochhäusl an Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the Weitzman School of Design, about the discourse on collectivity, dissent, and difference in architecture. We also discuss her work on modern architecture and urban culture in Austria, Germany, and the United States and the spatial histories of dissidence and resistance art, intersectional feminism, q***r theory, and gender studies, as well as labor theory and environmental history. In our discussion, we commented on how the borders or the margins are spaces were resistance occurs and how these are spaces for dissent. We also talked about teaching the cannon and how to change the narratives we perpetuate in the classrooms, and how other media like children's books, like her own Pinsel, Paula and the chatting houses: Viennese architecture for small and tall people, could be helpful tools to teach architecture.

Listen to this episode from from the margins - perspectives on architecture on Spotify. Recorded 05/21 In this episode, I talk to Sophie Hochhäusl an Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the Weitzman School of Design, about the discourse on collectivity, dissent, and differen...

04/08/2020

Check the two episodes Machely Flores and I recorded.

In this two episodes with Machely Flores, we talked about forced disappearance and corruption in México and the United States. We talked about Black Lives Matter, the movement, and its relation to demands made in México by the mothers of disappeared people by the government in the state of Coahuil...

02/08/2020

Recorded: June, 03. 2020. Part 2 of 2
In this second part of the episode with Machely Flores, we continue talking about forced disappearance and corruption in México and the United States. We talked about Black Lives Matter, the movement, and its relation to demands made in México by the mothers of disappeared people by the government in the state of Coahuila. We also talked about grassroots movements against social violence and the agency of citizens to reappropriate public space. We talked about Hamilton and the foundation of the US, the ideas behind it, and how as good as they were, they were not for everybody. We also talked about teaching history, western and non-western, feminist history, decolonial history, and other histories.

Recommendations:
A History of Women in the West by Michelle Perrot
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Portrait of a Lady on Fire on Amazon Prime
The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
El Dollop All things Comedy Podcast

Machely will be co-hosting with me every couple of months to do check-up episodes were we discuss current events.

Recorded: June, 03. 2020. Part 2 of 2 In this second part of the episode with Machely Flores, we continue talking about forced disappearance and corruption in México and the United States. We talked about Black Lives Matter, the movement, and its relation to demands made in México by the mothers o...

16/07/2020

Latest episode out.
Part 1 of 2 with Machely Flores. A conversation about forced disappearance and corruption in México and the United States. We talked about Black Lives Matter, the movement, and its relation to demands made in México by the mothers of disappeared people by the government in the state of Coahuila. We also talked about grassroots movements against social violence and the agency of citizens to reappropriate public space.
Machely will be co-hosting with me every couple of months to do check-up episodes were we discuss current events.

Recorded: June, 03. 2020. Part 1 of 2 In this first part of the episode with Machely Flores, we talked about forced disappearance and corruption in México and the United States. We talked about Black Lives Matter, the movement, and its relation to demands made in México by the mothers of disappear...

06/07/2020

Recorded- June 02, 2020. In this episode, I talk with a fellow fronteriza Edna Ledesma, an assistant professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Edna Ledesma’s interests revolve around city design, planning, public spaces, markets, hyb...

05/07/2020

And its back.... the 5th episode with Edna Ledesma!

In this episode, I talk with a fellow fronteriza Edna Ledesma, an assistant professor in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Edna Ledesma’s interests revolve around city design, planning, public spaces, markets, hybrid space, incrementally,...

28/06/2020

Native Americans in New Mexico have held protests to demand that effigies glorifying conquistadors be removed

27/06/2020

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07/06/2020

In this episode, I talk with a fellow Juarense Paloma Vianey, a Mexican artist doing an MFA at Cornell University. We talked about her experience of being a visual artist from the México/US border, specifically Cd. Juárez - El Paso borderland. How she started producing art and what her art is trying to transmit and portray about the fronterizo experience. We also relate the current quarantine to a self-imposed lockdown that took her to start painting back in the day “When the violence was very abrupt, that meant that I had to find myself at home. I couldn’t go out much and I said to myself, ‘I don’t want to just do nothing, I have to do something,’ so that’s when I started training to be an artist and I started painting more. I wanted to depict a composition that could portray the culture and Juárez in a positive context instead of ‘Juárez is world-wide known for terrible things.’ So what I wanted to do was take all that negativity and transform it into something positive.”
Recommendations
Liers by Malcon Gladwell
A bit of relief podcast
The New Yorker cartoons
Fleabag on Prime Video

Links
https://www.instagram.com/palomavianey/
https://www.theprospectordaily.com/2018/05/01/top-10-senior-takes-her-art-to-international-exhibits/
http://news.utep.edu/studying-art-history-at-the-met/

Listen to this episode from from the margins - perspectives on architecture on Spotify. In this episode, I talk with a fellow Juarense Paloma Vianey, a Mexican artist doing an MFA at Cornell University. We talked about her experience of being a visual artist from the México/US border, specifically ...

31/05/2020

In this episode, I talk with Aldo Solano Rojas, a Mexican Art Historian and Ph.D. student from the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at UNAM about his book on the Playgrounds of modern México, the public space, and the city.

In this episode, I talk with Aldo Solano Rojas, a Mexican Art Historian and Ph.D. student from Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at UNAM about his book on the Playgrounds of modern México, the public space, and the city. We also talked about centralism, the eternal fight between art historian...

31/05/2020

It’s out!

Listen to this episode from from the margins - perspectives on architecture on Spotify. In this episode, I talk with Aldo Solano Rojas, a Mexican Art Historian and Ph.D. student from Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at UNAM about his book on the Playgrounds of modern México, the public space...

31/05/2020

My next guest Aldo Solano Rojas book, Playgrounds of Modern Mexico.
Tune in this Sunday!

31/05/2020

In the next episode Aldo Solano Rojas will be talking about his book Playgrounds of Modern Mexico, public space, and the city.
Tune in this Sunday!

9,164 Followers, 2,258 Following, 1,856 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Aldo Solano Rojas ()

28/05/2020

The US’s brutal fault lines – of race, partisanship, gender, poverty and misinformation – rendered it ill-prepared to meet the challenges of Covid-19

27/05/2020

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26/05/2020

About the "When being a 'Karen' turns criminal article....
Elijah Anderson's “The White Space” - on color line, discrimination, prejudice, racism, racial profiling, segregation

26/05/2020

About the "When being a Karen turns criminal article...

Black people experience discrimination every day – it’s knowledge inaccessible to white people and, when confronted with it, most are incredulous

26/05/2020

Another day, another white woman called the police on a black man for a nonsensical reason. This time, Amy Cooper was walking her dog in a wooded area of Central Park called "the Ramble." As Cooper strolled through the park with her new dog off-leash, she encountered 57-year-old science editor Chris...

26/05/2020

This paper argues that the rise of architecture as a unique discipline and the conquest of the American continent are not just chronological coincidences but interdependent variables of the same process of modernization. Traditional scholarship in architecture has not entertained those parallel deve...

25/05/2020

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‎Society & Culture · 2020

25/05/2020

25/05/2020

Listen to my latest episode, I talk with Elisheva Levy, a Ph.D. candidate at UPenn, about heteronormative households, and the concept of "home"? We question nuclear families' normality while delving into ideas of pre-modern and modern communist habitat (while dealing with Marxist's concepts of primitive communism). Ideology and the lack of it in capitalism remain a discussion during the whole conversation, while we also talk about the possibilities of change of the paradigms of communal living for the future.

25/05/2020

Now on Spotify!

Listen to from the margins - perspectives on architecture on Spotify. from the margins - is a space for conversations on the built environment that puts the cultural production of historically marginalized and oppressed groups at the forefront of the discussion. I invite you to participate in this o...