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.
