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In <strong><em>The Center Won&#8217;t Hold<\/em><\/strong>, architect and writer Florencia Rodriguez proposes that Latin America should not be understood as a peripheral case requiring explanation, but as a position from which the contemporary world can be reinterpreted.<\/p>\n<p>Long accustomed to operating amid instability, scarcity, incomplete modernisations, and overlapping realities, architectural practices across the region have developed forms of engagement that illuminate conditions increasingly experienced worldwide. Through a series of contemporary works and projects, Rodriguez argues that Latin America offers not an alternative to modernity, but a productive vantage point from which to understand what comes after it. 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