dealing with reality # 4
by Luis Rojo de Castro
Autonomy today
Luis Rojo de Castro graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 1987, were he has been teaching design since 1992. He is currently Ph D Professor at the Department of Architecture, teaching design studios at the undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as Labs and Workshops at the Master for Advanced Architecture program. He is currently the Coordinator of the Ph D Program at the Architecture Department of the School of Architecture of Madrid. He obtained a Masters degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University , in 1989, and was Visiting Professor of Architecture at the GSD on regular basis between 1994 and 1998, and again in 2001, 2006 and 2011. Since 1999 he has been a regular Visiting Professor of History and Architecture Theory at the Escuela de Arquitectura de Navarra. As a result of his academic and research practice, his writings on contemporary architecture have been published in A+U, El Croquis, Cassabella, Tectónica, Revista Arquitectura, CIRCO, etc. He obtained a Ph.D in Architecture from the Architecture Department at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with a dissertation on the contaminations of Le Corbusier’s discourse with the instruments of Surrealism during the 1920’s. Luis Rojo belongs to the Editorial Board of the academic journal Cuaderno de Proyectos Arquitectónicos CPA , oriented towards disciplinary reasearch and published by Department of Architecture at the ETSAM, as well as to the Scientific Committe of Critic|all.
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