The City: Between Theory and Practice

In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will speak with Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, architect and current director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The conversation will highlight Rodriguez-Suárez’s dual career as an architect and educator, focusing specifically on the study of the city in the history of architectural pedagogy. Tune in Friday, May 5 at 11:00 AM EST, 8:00 AM PST at https://www.voiceamerica.com/show/4119/on-cities; and find all previous episodes on Spotify, Apple iTunes or your favorite podcast platform.

Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, FAIA, is the Clayton T. Miers Professor in Architecture and Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois. He studied architecture at Georgia Tech, Paris, and Harvard GSD, where he earned a Master of Architecture with Distinction winning the American Institute of Architects Medal, the Portfolio Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship. For nine years, he served as Dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture and has taught and lectured at various universities in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the United States. He has been invited by the American Academy in Rome as a Visiting Scholar and by many prestigious universities as Visiting Critic, including the AA, MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Barcelona, Seville, Toronto, Madrid, the Glasgow School of Arts, Tulane, Rice, and the University of Johannesburg. Professor Rodríguez-Suárez served as the director of (in)forma, an award-winning academic journal, and has edited five books including Alma Mater, Aula Magna, Chronologies of an Architectural Pedagogy, and Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico 1992-2010. His practice, RSVP Architects, has earned over 10 AIA-PR Awards and several BIENAL awards in seven different categories. Rodríguez-Suárez is a Fellow of the AIA; and he recently finished his term as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, an organization that had previously recognized him as Distinguished Professor.