Biography
Jorge Francisco Liernur is an architect graduated at the University of Buenos Aires. After his graduation he studied art and architecture history with Manfredo Tafuri (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) and Tilmann Buddensieg (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Bonn). He was awarded with scholarships and grants from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Getty Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Social Sciences Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He is currently Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. He is also Researcher of the Argentine National Council for Research on Science and Technology. At the University of Buenos Aires he was director of the Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas, and founder and professor of the “Juan O`Gorman” Latin-American Architecture Chair. He acted as visiting scholar and lecturer at several Universities in America and Europe: Harvard, Princeton, SCI-Arc, Columbia (USA); Navarra, Siviglia, Barcelona (Spain); Roma La Sapienza, Torino, Milano, (Italy); ETH (Switzerland); TU Berlin, Universität Trier (Germany); Central University of Venezuela, Catholic University (Chile), among others.
Liernur's books include Architecture in 20th Century Argentina, The Southern Network, Writings on 20th Century Architecture in Latin America, Architecture in Latin America. 1965-1985, The Shadow of the Avant-Garde, Hannes Meyer in Mexico, and Dictionary of Architecture and the City in Argentina. His numerous articles and essays have appeared in America and Europe in such publications as Assemblage, ANY, Zodiac, Casabella, AA files, Arquitectura Viva, Der Architekt, and At the End of the Century. His studies are currently focused in the problem of “otherness” in relation with architecture and urbanism worldwide. His previous investigations did cover the development of modern architecture and the city in Latin America, with special emphasis on cross-cultural processes. Into this frame he examined the consequences of modern masters relations with that region (Mies, Le Corbusier, Hannes Meyer, Neutra, BBPR, etc.).
Courses
- ARCH-141G
RETHINKING THE CANON: ON THE NON EURO-NORTH AMERICAN ROOTS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
- GRAD-141G
RETHINKING THE CANON: ON THE NON EURO-NORTH AMERICAN ROOTS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE