Fernando Luiz Lara

Fernando Luiz Lara is a Brazilian architect with degrees from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (BArch, 1993) and the University of Michigan (PhD, 2001). The author of several books and hundreds of articles, in academic and professional journals as well as the general media, Prof. Lara writes extensively on a variety of issues regarding the Latin American built environment. Fernando Lara is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin where he also served as Chair of the Brazil Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies from 2012 to 2015.