During my CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowship in 2014, I traveled to Valparaíso, Chile to conduct dissertation research on the radical, interdisciplinary pedagogy of the Escuela de Arquitectura de Valparaíso (f. 1952—), which is based on the encuentro between architecture and poetry. My dissertation, “An Intimate Modernism: The Valparaíso School in the Urban Sphere, 1952-1972” focuses on how certain surrealist-inspired concepts manifest in the School’s theories and activities (poetic acts, urban drifting, the notion of interiority) subverted the technocratic rationalism and developmentalist ethos typical of official state architecture in postwar South America. I spent the majority of my trip revising materials in the Archivo Histórico José Vial Armstrong and in-house publications and theses in the School’s library related to the origins of the School. I also had the opportunity to visit the School’s experimental research site, Ciudad Abierta (f. 1970—) where students and faculty regularly convene every Wednesday. During this summer’s archival research, I also became interested in how the School attempted to establish a vanguard culture in postwar Chile by staging public exhibitions of international contemporary art, as well as retrospective exhibitions of their own activities and production. I am currently using these findings to write a collaborative article related to interdisciplinary pedagogies and modernism in postwar Latin America.