Brazilian photographer and visual artist Leonardo Finotti discusses the development of the Latinitudes exhibition, in addition to his long-term project documenting modern architecture across Latin America, and the accompanying publication series with Lars Müller Publishers. The talk is followed by a reception.

Latinitudes, presented for the first time in the United States, is a photographic survey of modern architecture across twelve Latin American cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bogotá, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Havana, Cuba; Lima, Peru; Mexico City, Mexico; Montevideo, Uruguay; Quito, Ecuador; San José, Costa Rica; Santiago, Chile; and São Paulo, Brazil. Featuring more than 100 photographs by Finotti and curated by Brazilian architect Michelle Jean de Castro, the exhibition presents modern architecture across Latin America from a new perspective. Combining the words "latitudes" and "Latino," the exhibition proposes a horizontal framework connecting cities across shared geographies and histories, presenting housing, civic, and cultural works by key figures of modernism—Luis Barragán, Lina Bo Bardi, Roberto Burle Marx, Félix Candela, Eladio Dieste, Emilio Duhart, Ricardo Legorreta, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Oscar Niemeyer, Juan O'Gorman, Mario Pani, Ricardo Porro, Rogelio Salmona, Clorindo Testa, and Carlos Raúl Villanueva, among others.

Presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial

Leonardo Finotti is a visual artist based in São Paulo, Brazil, whose work centers on two complementary themes: modern architecture and anonymous or informal urban spaces. Trained as an architect, he holds a BA in Architecture from the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Brazil) and completed postgraduate studies at the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany. Finotti began his career in Portugal, where he lived for six years and worked with leading Portuguese architects, before embarking on a long-term photographic project that revisits and reinterprets the legacy of modern architecture across Latin America and beyond. Alongside collaborations with architects, institutions, and publications internationally, he has produced a number of independent projects through exhibitions and books, including Pelada (2014), Latinitudes (2015), Rio Enquadrado (2016), A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture (2016), and Sacred Groves & Secret Parks (2019). His work has been widely exhibited and is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (Switzerland); Fundação EDP (Portugal); Architekturzentrum Wien (Austria); Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Germany); and Museu Brasileiro da Escultura e Ecologia (Brazil), among others. He has represented Brazil at two Venice Architecture Biennales and the 10th Mercosul Art Biennial, and was a prizewinner at the 15th Buenos Aires International Biennial of Architecture.

For more information on the exhibition, Latinitudes
A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, click here.