A Modern Buenos Aires: Architecture and Photomontage under Peronism

Join Ana María León and Eric P. Mumford for a talk on architecture and photomontage under Peronism in modern Buenos Aires. Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series. About the Participants Ana María León's work examines how spatial practices of power, resistance, and solidarity have shaped the modernity and coloniality of the American continent. She is co-founder of several collectives laboring to broaden the reach of architectural history. León is author of Spatial Solidarities: Architecture and Resistance in 1970s Chile (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026) and Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires (University of Texas Press, 2021). She is associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is currently working on a co-edited collection on spatial histories of unfreedom and a book project on settler modernity in Uruguay. Eric P. Mumford is the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also holds courtesy appointments in art history and archaeology, as well as history. His academic research and teaching focuses on the history of architectural design within various midcentury metropolitan and environmental contexts, many of them related to the history of CIAM, the International Congresses of Modern Architecture. His books include Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-70s, (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum) the catalogue for a fall 2024 exhibition which he co-curated. He is also the author of several widely known works of architectural history, including a textbook, Designing the Modern City: Urbanism Since 1850 (Yale University Press, 2018); The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (MIT Press, 2000); Defining Urban Design: CIAM Architects and the Formation of a Discipline, 1937-69 (Yale University Press, 2009); Modern Architecture in St. Louis (Washington University, 2004); and an earlier museum catalogue, Ando and Le Corbusier, volume 2 (Alphawood Foundation, Chicago, 2021). He was co-principal investigator with Mónica Rivera on Edges of Privacy, a housing research project in 2021-24, supported by a McDonnell International Scholars Academy Global Incubator Seed Grant. He currently an advisor to the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Humanity’s Urban Future committee and a steering committee member of the Genealogies of Urban Design Network.