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Museo Nacional Honestino Guimarães, Brasilia.
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Ciudad Universitaria de la UNAM, Ciudad de México.

It was not until after the 1940s that Latin America was part of the curatorial speeches by the well-known Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. In Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, one of the most significant exhibitions undertaken by the institution in 1932, construction activity in the region still remained strangely absent from the selection of the works.
It was an external event to the museum which helped to visualize the architecture of the area: the World's Fair in New York (1939). With more than forty-four million visitors, this event had participant countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela and Mexico, whose pavilions left stunned historians and architects from around the world. Following this, the museum organized the exhibition 20 Centuries of Mexican Art (1940). Three years later it was opened another exhibition, Brazil Builds: New and Old Architecture, 1652-1942, which allowed revealings of the origins of Brazilian modernism. The architecture of this country made such an impact among curators at MOMA that it continued to be the choice for future samples: Two Cities: Planning in North and South America (1947) and From Le Corbusier to Niemeyer, 1929-1949 (1948).
Brazil and Mexico were the only ones presented by the museum until Latin American Architecture since 1945, curated by Arthur Drexler and Henry-Russell Hitchcock took place in 1955.
The curators Barry Bergdoll and Patricio del Real decided to hold, sixty years after the attempt of 1955, the exhibition Latin American in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, open from 29 March until 19 July 2015. It was the result of a union of two forces that Hitchcock and Drexler never could have imagined: the institutional one by MOMA and the technological one represented by the social network Instagram. The result was a selection of more than five hundred works between models and original drawings (many never before exhibited), films of the period and photographs taken through Instagram.