Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona

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Assistant Research Architect, Southwest Center and The School of Architecture

MA Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977

Research interests: Investigations and Comparative Studies of the Architecture and Urbanism of Northwest Mexico and the American Southwest, Colonial to Present.

Area studies courses: Northwest Mexico architecture and Urbanism; Historic preservation/restoration of Architectural sites.

Selected Publications

Messina, J. 2005.  “Alamos: La Ciudad de los Portales,” Perspectives In Vernacular Architecture.

Messina, J. 2005.  “Architecture and Urbanism of the Pimeria Alta,” Cross-Cultural Vernacular landscapes of Southern Arizona: a Field guide.  

Messina, J.  2002.  “Architecture and Urbanism of the Southwest.”  Defining the Southwest, web site, University of Arizona Library.