→Fabiola López-Durán

Biography

Curator Fabiola López-Durán: Rice University, USA Originally trained in architecture and museology in Venezuela, Italy, and France, Fabiola López-Durán obtained her PhD in History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture at the Massachuse- tts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. From a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, her research and teaching ex- plore the complicities between racism and capitalism that underlie the production of the built environment. She is the author of the award-winning book Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity (University of Texas Press, 2018)—the book that received the SAH/Mellon Author Award in 2018 and the Robert Motherwell Book Prize in 2019, awarded for the best book of the year on modernism. She is also co-editor of the new book from Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative titled Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022), author of numerous articles on art, architecture, and landscape, and of monographic books on artists including Felice Varini: Points de Vue (Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller, 2004), Ana Maria Tavares: Atlântica Moderna: Purus e Negros (Vila Velha, Brazil: Museu Vale, 2014, with Nikki Moore), and Magdalena Fernández: Drops of Light (Houston, USA: Sicar- di-Ayers-Bacino & Buffalo Bayou Partnership, forthcoming 2026, with Rachel Hooper and Sean Nesselrode). Since 2020, López-Du- rán directs The Racial Geography Project, a research collective that examines histories of racism and resistance recorded on the campus of Rice University.