Adrián Gorelik

Who is Adrián Gorelik?

Adrián Gorelik is an architect, urban historian and leading commentator on urban issues in Argentina. His most well-known books are La sombra de la vanguardia: Hannes Meyer en México, 1938-1947, and La grilla y el parque: Espacio público y cultura urbana en Buenos Aires, 1887-1936. In 2003 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project entitled “The cycle of invention and critique of the ‘Latin American City’.”

Gorelik is currently a professor at the National University of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, as well as a researcher in the Intellectual History Program there. In 2002 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Gorelik holds several editorial positions at academic culture and design journals including deputy director at Punto de Vista, Editorial Board member of Prismas. Revista de Historia Intelectual and Block. Revista de cultura de la ciudad y la arquitectura, and Editorial Collective member of Public Culture.

Gorelik received a degree in architecture and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires.