Three Short Stories Without an Ending

Rodriguez, Francisco Javier

Title:

Three Short Stories Without an Ending

dc.contributor.author	Rodriguez, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-30T20:51:56Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-30T20:51:56Z
dc.date.issued	2012-03-07
dc.description	Presented on March 7, 2012 from 6:00 pm-7:30 pm in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium on the Georgia Tech campus.	en_US
dc.description	Francisco Javier Rodríguez is currently the Principal at r s v p architects in San Juan, the Dean at the Universidad de Puerto Rico School of Architecture and the director of (in)forma. Mr. Rodríguez graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with High Honors and won a Second Prize in the William Van Alen International Student Competition. He studied a year at the Université de Paris before continuing his education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where he studied under Moshen Mostafavi, Jude LeBlanc, Nader Tehrani, Dave Hickey and Michael Hays. He worked on his thesis with Jorge Silvetti, George Baird and Val Warke, exploring the relationship between architecture and ideology. In 1997, he earned a Master of Architecture with Distinction, winning the American Institute of Architects Medal, the Portfolio Award and the Fulbright Fellowship. Mr. Rodríguez has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, the University of Seville, the Universidad de los Andes (Cartagena), Universidad de Cantabria(Suances) and the Boston Architectural Center and has been a Guest Critic at Auburn, ETSA-Sevilla, Cornell, Harvard, Rice, MIT, Penn, Georgia Tech, Pratt, RISD, Catholic University(Santo Domingo and Washington DC), City Colleye-NY, Northeastern, the Politécnica- Puerto Rico, UNIBE, UniDis, and the University of Houston. He has authored numerous articles and publications and was the editor of Contemporary Architecture in Puerto Rico 1993-2010. In 2010, the American Academy in Rome invited him as a Visiting Scholar to continue his research on architecture and pedagogy. Francisco Javier Rodríguez has lectured at Harvard, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Tulane, Oklahoma State, the Universidad Politécnica de PR, UPR-Río Piedras, UPR-Mayaguez, the Universidad Central de Caracas in Venezuela, Universidad Iberoaméricana(Santo Domingo), the International Centre in Madrid, the Universidad de Cantabria-Suances, Spain, the Bankers' Club in San Juan, Rice, Sevilla, the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, the San Juan-Barcelona International Symposium, the AIAS Forums in Cincinnati and Minneapolis, the World Congress on Housing and Planning, the Iberoamerican Congress on Urbanism, the Santo Domingo ENEFA, MUNDANEUM and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Mr. Rodríguez worked for Machado-Silvetti, Gabriel Ruiz-Cabrero, Jorge Rigau and Héctor Arce before founding his current practice, rsvp. His work—which covers a field of scales from urban furniture for a company in Barcelona to various master-plans--has earned five BIENAL Awards, the URBE Award, four AIA Citations, and Honorable Mentions in the Premio Obra CEMEX, the CAAPPR Innovative Housing Competition and the Williamsburg Waterfront Venue Competition. It has been exhibited at the Architectural League in NY, Art-Basel, UIA-Barcelona and the Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño in Madrid. His firm was awarded the 2005 AIAS National Emerging Practice Award and participated on the ORDOS 100 Project in China. He was recently selected by Caribbean Business as one of its “Forty Under Forty” and by El Nuevo Día newspaper as one of the ten most influential pioneers in Puerto Rico for the year 2008.
dc.description	Runtime: 73:17 minutes
dc.format.extent	73:17 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43168
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Architecture Lecture Series
dc.subject	Academia	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture	en_US
dc.subject	Puerto Rico	en_US
dc.subject	Urbanism,	en_US
dc.title	Three Short Stories Without an Ending	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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