Francisco Rodriguez

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. He has been invited as a Visiting Scholar by the American Academy in Rome and as Visiting Critic at numerous prestigious universities worldwide. His practice, RSVP Architects, has earned over 10 AIA-PR Awards. Rodríguez-Suárez is a Fellow of the AIA (2019) and was selected by El Nuevo Día newspaper as one of the ten most influential pioneers in Puerto Rico in 2008, when he collaborated with artist Ai Wei Wei on the Ordos 100 project in China.