This paper explores the discourses generated in the Latino American Architectural Seminaries celebrated between 1985 and 1993. For that have been considered the debates on the important notions of identity, modernity and regionalism and its translation by some of the participants in different conferences and publications of architecture in that period. They can be considered in a certain way, as a reaction to the economic crisis started in the 80s and to the lack of interes in the latin american architecture by foreign historians and critics also in the same period. All that was in sharp contrast with the international interest in authors and works of the 40s and 50s, years of optimism and almost unlimited hope in the progress.