Rodolphe el-Khoury is dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture. He also leads RAD Lab, an embedded-technology and robotics research unit for responsiveness and resilience in buildings and smart cities, and is a partner at Khoury Levit Fong. Previously, el-Khoury was Canada research chair and director of urban design at the University of Toronto. Prior to this, he was head of architecture at California College of the Arts, and before that, an associate professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design. El-Khoury has also taught at Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Princeton University. His work has appeared in WIRED, The Toronto Star, and The Wall Street Journal and on the Space Channel and BBC, among others. He is the author of numerous books on architecture and urbanism, including See Through Ledoux, Monolithic Architecture, and Figures: Essays on Contemporary Architecture.
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