ABSTRACT
This chapter, by Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, examines the history and speculates about the future of the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture in the context of the Commonwealth’s own complexities and status as an unincorporated territory of the United States. As the author observes, Puerto Rico is, geographically, part of the Caribbean; culturally, part of Latin America; and politically, part of the United States. These forces have shaped a unique set of sometimes competing structures, challenges, and ambitions from which the UPR School of Architecture emerged and which continue to shape its relationships and responses to local and distant educational and professional circumstances, as well as political and economic ones.
