Roi Salgueiro Barrio is an architect and urbanist whose work focuses on the interrelations between architecture, systems of territorial organization, and globalization. He is the founder of design practice RSAU, a lecturer at MIT Department of Architecture, and the curator-director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design. He was Principal Assistant Curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Roi is the author, with Hashim Sarkis and Gabriel Kozlowski, of The World as an Architectural Project (MIT Press: 2020). His research has been widely published in academic journals (New Geographies; Log; The Journal of Architectural Education; City, Territory and Architecture; San Rocco; Architecture, City and Environment; Footprint, Cartha), and featured both in general media (The Washington Post, The Guardian, El Pais, Forbes Magazine) and specialized design and art magazines (Abitare, Metropolis Magazine, Art in America, Domus, Rassegna).His work has been internationally exhibited in venues such as the Venice Biennale, Lisbon Triennale, the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile University, the ETH Zurich, Yale School of Architecture, and Sao Paolo Faculty of Architecture. Roi is an editor for urbanNext, Actar Publishers platform for disseminating advanced thinking on urbanism, a member of Actar’s scientific committee, and a founding member of the research collaborative ASIDE.
