sábado, 28 de febrero de 2015

ALBERTO FOYO

Alberto Foyo, received his architectural education at the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Madrid, Spain and at the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon, USA. During his formative years he worked in New York City and in Vienna. In 1993 he established his independent practice in Manhattan. Alberto Foyo Architect, PC is a multidisciplinary practice established in 1993. The firm focuses simultaneously on architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture and is active in diverse regions of the world. Alberto Foyo Architect, PC also serves as an umbrella organization for several social and architecture related institutions in Spain, Ukraine, China, and Brazil. The firm’s work has been published in different books and professional magazines and it has been exhibited in various cultural forums.
Alberto Foyo’s extensive academic involvement has become over the years a seamless extension of his practice. In close collaboration with a rotating international student body his classes have transformed into ‘hands on’ laboratories dealing with both sensorial and social concerns. His working methodology, based on a multidisciplinary and critical approach, stresses and builds on the positive and restorative virtues of not compromising. Alberto Foyo is active internationally as professor, guest critic and lecturer. He is professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University and at the School of Architecture of the City University of New York. He has been visiting professor at The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, at UNITEC School of Architecture in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Fachochschule in Munich, Germany. He has lectured in universities and cultural institutions worldwide.

Since 2007 he leads a permaculture design-build initiative in the Brazilian Amazon basin in conjunction with the indigenous Munduruku tribe. He is founding partner and director of Postopia, a think tank focused on clean up policies and cultural sustainability in the highly deteriorated urban environment of the ex Soviet republics, an organization based in Ukraine, Russia, Holland, and USA. He is co-founding member of the Compostela Institute, an independent international architecture academic program in Spain. He is the architecture department director of Recycled China, a new research and design-build firm based in Beijing that focuses on the manufacturing of architectural materials made with discarded ceramic and discarded metals.

He was recently awarded an Honorary Masters Honoris Causa by the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Kharkov, Ukraine.

You can visit his work at: www.albertofoyo.com