Alberto Meouchi is an architect, urban designer, and researcher at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) at MIT, where he leads and collaborates on projects that intersect migration, climate resilience, and urbanization. His work focuses on migration, alternative land tenure systems, ecological processes, and rurban transformations, with recent efforts addressing water access, displacement, and strategic urban development in Latin America.
Alberto has exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, the ETSAM in Madrid, and institutions in Mexico, Spain, the US, and China. He is a recipient of the Julian Beinart Research Award, MITdesignX Post-Pandemic World Challenge Grant, JWAFS grant, and the Felix Candela Prize. His experience spans professional architecture studios in the U.S. and Mexico, as well as projects in multiple geographies. He holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Tec de Monterrey and a Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Urbanism from MIT, with an Urban Design Certificate.
