Ernestina Osorio
Research Scholar since 2006
osorio@ucla.edu
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"Unequal Union: La Casa Estudio de San Angel Inn, ca 1929-1932."  Negotiating Domesticity. Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture. Edited by Heynen, Hilde and Gülsüm Baydar Nalbantoglu.  (London: Routledge, 2005), p. 215-233.

"Women's Promotion of Modern Mexican Architecture in Transnational Visual and Print Media." CSW Update. June 2007, p. 17-19.

My current research explores women's roles in modernist architectural production in early to mid-twentieth century Mexico City. I show how the links elaborated by several women between photography, print media, and modern architecture in Mexico contributed to interpretations of modernity and shaped perceptions of space. This work seeks to increase our understanding of women's roles in affecting modernist architecture in Mexico City and its diffusion in the U.S. by contextualizing their involvement within a broader mid-twentieth century artistic, cultural and intellectual milieu and by relating them to each other.

Ernestina Osorio completed her Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University in 2006 and has taught courses on history, theory, and criticism of architecture, art, and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz, California Institute of the Arts, Pratt Institute, and Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her field of research on modern architecture and Latin American visual culture focuses on Mexico and examines the themes of domesticity, interiority, gendered spaces, and transnational reception and representation of modernity.