Rojo de Castro, Luis

Luis Rojo de Castro obtained a degree on architecture from the ETSAM, where has been teaching architecture design since 1992. He further obtained a Masters degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and a Ph_D in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

He is currently Professor at the Department of Architecture, teaching design studios at the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as Labs and Workshops at the Master for Advanced Architecture program. He is currently the Academic Secretary of the MPAA Master Program and member of the Ph D Academic Commission.

He’s been Visiting Critic of Architecture at the GSD on regular basis between 1994 and 1998, and again in 2001, 2006 and 2011. From 1999 to 2012 has been a regular Visiting Professor of History and Architecture Theory at the UNAV. In 2016 was appointed Visiting Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York, in 2018 Visiting Professor at the Masters Program in Architecture at the UNAV and in 2019 Visiting Critic in Architecture at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.

As a result of his academic and research practice, his writings on contemporary architecture have been published in A+U, El Croquis, Cassabella, Tectónica, Revista Arquitectura, CIRCO, Rassegna, El País journal, and has lecture at the Harvard School of Design, the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago, the Leibniz Universität Hannover School of Architecture, the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), the BAS School of Architecture at the City College of New York and The Cooper Union (NY).