Against Architecture (notes on the Amazon Frontier): By 1989, the rampant destruction of the rain forest in the Amazon basin had reached international media attention and became one of the paradigmatic questions that forced the introduction of environmental issues into the official agenda of global politics. The history of the expansion of the Amazonian Frontier is marked by conflicts against the implementation of spatial infrastructures, a process in which architecture no rarely appears as the mechanism which enables the manipulation and re-articulation of ecological-political modes of social organization through violent means of dispossession. This presentation will focus on the process of occupation of the Amazon basin by following the archives of the “developmental geopolitics” of the military regime in Brasil from early 60s until late 70s. In the Amazon Territory, ideologies of development forged during the Cold-War period were applied through a process of geographical planning that served as a medium of territorial control which re-enacted colonial modes of spatial relations. The “territorial design” put forward by the military dictatorship functioned as an induced process of “internal colonization”, organizing the geographical scale of the State trough the articulation of architectural and urban nodes as a frontier line of expansion.