Patricio del Real

Patricio del Real, PhD, works on the modern architecture of Latin America and its transnational connections with U.S. cultural institutions. He has written on topics related to postwar politics and architecture, the historiography of modernism, and the poetics of space. He is a faculty member at Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Before going to Cambridge, he was Visiting Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Program of Latin American Studies at Princeton University. Prior, he was working in the Architecture and Design Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, were he worked on several exhibitions and co-curated Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980. He holds a PhD in Architecture History and Theory from Columbia University and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He also has taught seminars and design courses, as well as design-build architecture studios in the Southern United States, and participated in the construction of informal structures in Havana, Cuba, presenting his research on contemporary vernacular practices in Cuba at the International Biennial of Architecture in Havana. He’s taught, lectured and given seminars throughout Latin America; been the Director of the Clemson University Architecture Center in Barcelona, Spain; co-edited the anthology, Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories (Routledge, 2012), and Taking Positions: architects write from Latin America, an anthology of original documents to be published in MoMA’s Documents series. He is at work on a book about MoMA’s mid-century architecture exhibitions on Latin America.

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