Rodolfo Machado is Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design. He has taught design studios in urban design and architecture at the GSD since 1987. His studios have included: Dubai Studio, Urban Form: Moscow Luzhniki Studio, Provoking a New Form of Urbanity: The Corvin Promenade, Budapest, Downtown Seoul: The recovery of the Chungae Chun Stream, Reinventing Apkujung, Seoul, South Korea; Reinterpreting 1960s Urbanism; National Archives Area of Buenos Aires; U.S. Postal Service at South Station; Academic District—Pamplona; The Bullfinch Triangle; Rosario, Argentina; The Urban Building; New Urbanity: The Case of Marina Bay; Ria de Bilbao; Singapore Studio II and I, Redevelopment in Buenos Aires, and Valparaiso.

Machado was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is a citizen of the United States, where he has resided since 1968. He received his Diploma in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1967. During the academic year 1967-68 he studied urban design at the Centre de Recherche d'Urbanisme, in Paris, France, and in 1971 he received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley where he continued doctoral studies in architectural theory until 1973.

Harvard Graduate Student Housing		Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Machado has taught at Carnegie-Mellon University and at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he chaired the department of architecture from 1978 until 1986. Most notably, Mr. Machado has been Bishop Professor of Architecture at Yale University, Smith Professor of Architecture at Rice University, Jean Labatut Professor of Urbanism at Princeton University, and Thomas Jefferson Professor in Architecture at the University of Virginia. In 1995, he curated an exhibition entitled "Monolithic Architecture" at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and his own drawings and projects have been extensively published and exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

Machado practiced architecture in San Francisco, California and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before associating with Jorge Silvetti in 1974. Machado and Silvetti Associates was incorporated in 1985 and is now a forty-five-person practice focused on institutional buildings and master plans. The firm's notable client list includes Princeton, Harvard and Rice Universities, the University of California San Francisco, Arizona State University, Rhode Island School of Design, the American University of Beirut, the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy Andover, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Boston Public Library, and the J. Paul Getty Trust.