Jesús Vassallo 

is a Spanish architect and writer who currently teaches design and theory as Gus Wortham Assistant Professor at Rice University. Before coming to Rice, he taught at IE University, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Harvard University, and the Boston Architectural College. His widely-published research, which focuses on the problem of realism in architecture through the production of design and scholarship, has appeared internationally in magazines such as El Croquis, AA Files, 2G, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, and Arquitectura Viva. From 2006-12, Vassallo worked as a project architect with Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos in Madrid. And in 2015 he launched an independent design practice that bridges architecture and urbanism through an understanding of both as material culture. Some of the areas of interest in the work include housing, construction materials, background form, and time-based urbanism. His books include: Epics in the Everyday: Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism (2020) and Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture (2016).