Courses Taught (in the last four semesters prior to current visit):
ARQU 4145 – Research Techniques in Architecture
ARQU 4212 – History of Architecture II: Genealogy of Modernity
ARQU 5995 – Pre-Columbian and Colonial Cities and Architecture of Latin America
ARQU 5995 – Thinking the city: Urban Theories in the Twentieth Century
ARQU 6145 – Research Techniques in Architecture
ARQU 6146 – Research Techniques in Architecture
ARQU 6213 – History of Architecture III: Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism
ARQU 6225 – Architectural Theory and Criticism
ARQU 6431 – Research Seminar
Educational Credentials:
(2003) Ph.D. in History of Latin American, Faculty of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
(1998) Graduate seminars and research, Colegio de México. Ciudad de México.
(1995) Master’s Degree in Arts, Faculty of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
Teaching Experience:
(2006-Present) Professor. School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
(1998-2005) Assistant Professor. School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
Selected Publications and Recent Research:
(2022- In process) “De otras ruinas: La arquitectura y los trances de la memoria después de la destrucción”, in Malena Rodríguez Castro, Juan Otero and Jorge Lizardi, (eds.), Desplazamientos y memorias colectivas después de María. San Juan: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, Escuela de Arquitectura de la UPR
(2022- In process) ¨From tearing down walls to nostalgia for the colonial city: San Juan, from Spanish to US dominion. in Fernando de Giovanni (ed.), Transitions in Latin American, Vol. III, 1870-1930. New Haven: Cambridge University Press.
(2021, in process) “Ciudad, arquitectura y colonización en los primeros siglos de dominio español”, Enciclopedia Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities.
(2020, in process) Wicked Colonial Nostalgias: Power, Tragedy and Heritage Making in the Caribbean Cities (book in process). Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.
(2020) “San Juan: From Heritage Making to Merciless Gentrification”, lecture for Aaroh Shkuda seminar, Mapping Gentrification, School of Architecture, Princeton University.
(2019) “Arrabal propio, paisaje del otro. Visiones estadounidenses en la invención del viejo San Juan, 1938-1958”, en Laura Muñoz Mata, ed., El Caribe: Visiones históricas de la región. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, 2019.
(2019) “Entropía de las nostalgias: Patrimonios, olvidos y desafíos en las ciudades del Caribe”. Conferencia magistral. 6ta Feria Internacional del Libro. Universidad Nacional de Chiapas.
(2018 Summer / Princeton University Visiting Scholar) On the Possibility of Memory after Destruction: Time and Heritage after Hurricane Maria. Scholars and Artists from Puerto Rico (VISAPUR), Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton, N.J.
(2018-2019) Project Displacements and Collective Memories: Time, space, and culture in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria. Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities Grant. (With Malena Rodríguez Castro, Juan Otero Garabís).
(2017) “Daños colaterales: Utopía, ciudad y suburbio en tiempos de Guerra Fría (1942-1972)”, en Manuel R. Rodríguez y Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, eds., Tiempos binarios. Puerto Rico y el Caribe en tiempos de la Guerra Fría. San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2017, pp. 211-251.