Profile
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
- RISD - School of Architecture - Assistant Professor
BIO
Germán Pallares-Avitia is a registered Mexican architect and scholar. Growing up in the pre-NAFTA, pre-911 Mexican side of the Cd. Juárez/El Paso border, Germán became interested in questions of culture, citizenship, nationalism, and transnationalism, interests reflected in his current scholarship. His research lies at the intersection of modernization, cultural relations, borders and politics in the context of Latin America and the US. Germán’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing on fields such as border, Chicano and gender studies, as well as environmental history and urbanism and explores post-colonial and decolonial concepts that refine understandings of territories, nations, identity and migration as they relate to architectural and urban conditions.
PH.D. DISSERTATION
Life on the Border: Constructing the México-US Borderlands, 1961-1971
RECENT ARTICLES
- Pallares, Germán. “The Borderlands at Display.” In Frontera Nation: Emerging a New Border Conciousness - Series, by Pallares-Avitia Germán, and Lopez Cesar. PLATFORM, 2023. - Feb 2023
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Pallares, Germán and Elisa Drago, Pablo Landa. “Corazones Culturales Fronterizos: Los Centros Artesanales de Ciudad Juárez y Matamoros.” In Salvador Ortega Flores. Constructor de la Modernidad, edited by Louise Noelle. UNAM. 2022
- Pallares, Germán. “Arquitecturas híbridas en la región fronteriza México—EE. UU.: El caso del PRONAF en Matamoros.” In Apuntes sobre Decolonización, Arquitectura y Ciudad en Las Américas, edited by Fernando. L. Lara, and Reina Loredo, 327-49. Colofón Editores/ UAT, 2020.
- Pallares, G. et al. “Don Ricardo Legorreta.” In 260 Motivos para amar a México, 81. México: Plaza y Valdés, 2013.
