ArchiLectures | Jorge Francisco Liernur

One of the distinctive formal keys of modern architecture has been the use of flat roofs. This characteristic is usually attributed to technical and aesthetic reasons. However, it can be verified that to these motifs must be added the strong interest of modernist artists and architects for the urban and plastic world that characterizes North Africa.  The presentation will try to show that this interest constitutes an equally important reason, hitherto neglected by the North American historiography of The modern architecture.

Jorge Francisco Liernur is an architect graduated at the University of Buenos Aires. He  studied 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 Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He is currently Emeritus at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Researcher from the Argentine National Council for Research on Science and Technology and Guest Curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He acted as visiting scholar and lecturer at several Universities  in America and Europe: Harvard, Princeton, SCI-Arc, Columbia (USA); Navarra, Barcelona (Spain); Roma La Sapienza, Milano, (Italy); ETH (Switzerland); TU Berlin, Universität Trier (Germany);  Central University of Venezuela, Catholic University (Chile), among others.  He published books (“Architecture in XXth Century Argentina”, “The Southern Network. On the works of Le Corbusier and his disciples in Argentina”;  “Writings on XXth Century Architecture in Latin America”,  “Architecture in Latin America. 1965-1985”, “The shadow of the Avant-Garde. Hannes Meyer in Mexico”, etc.); and numerous articles and essays in America and Europe (“Assemblage”, “ANY”, “Zodiac”, “Casabella”, “AA files”, “Arquitectura Viva”,  “Der Architekt”,  “At the End of the Century”, “World Architecture”, etc.).

University:
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.