The Essence of Building Responsibly with Jesús Vassallo

Jesús Vassallo is a Spanish architect, writer, and professor of architecture studies at Rice University. Throughout his career, he has been writing and publishing architecture books - one of them well known as Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture - before eventually establishing his firm in 2019. With works ranging from private and public buildings to urban design, consistently emphasizing construction and design excellence, and focusing on affordable housing, low-carbon construction technology, adaptive reuse, and public-interest design, he shares further on being genuinely responsible as an architect influenced by multipotentiality in this Story of Design series.