Luis E. Carranza
About the speaker
He is currently a professor at Roger Williams University, an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture.
He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California and a PhD in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University.
His publications include Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, Utopia with Fernando Lara (2015), Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico (2021), Ephemeral Architectures and Falsified Cities: Utopian Visions for Latin America(2025), and On Time and Experience: Luis Barragán and Modern Living (coming soon). He is the curator of the Barragán Gallery at the Vitra Design Museum.