Jesús Vassallo

Jesús Vassallo, Gus Wortham Assistant Professor, Rice Architecture, presents the Noon Talk Epics in the Everyday at 12:00 p.m. in Farish Gallery at Anderson Hall, Rice University, as part of the Spring 2020 Lecture Series.

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Jesús Vassallo is a Spanish architect and writer, and currently an assistant professor at Rice University. His work focuses on the problem of realism in architecture through the production of design and scholarship. In addition to Epics in the Everyday, he is the author of Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture (Park Books, 2016). His articles have been published internationally in magazines such as El Croquis, AA Files, 2G, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, or Arquitectura Viva. Since 2011, he serves as editor of Circo magazine.

In 2004, Vassallo became a licensed architect in Spain, where he worked in the office of Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos as a project architect from 2006 to 2012. There he contributed to projects such as the Twin Houses or the International Convention Center for the City of Madrid, and international competitions such as the expansion of the Kusnthaus Zürich, the New National Museum of Afghanistan, the Museo del Novecento in Venice or the renovation of the Carreau de Halles in Paris. Vassallo recently opened his own design practice in Houston, where he has focused on a series of projects that study the relationship between architectural form and urban space through a focus on housing.

Vassallo studied architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. Before Rice, he taught at IE University, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Harvard University, and the Boston Architectural College.
 
The Spring 2020 Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund.

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