Alberto Foyo’s extensive academic involvement has become over the years a seamless extension of his practice. His working methodology, based on a multidisciplinary and critical approach, stresses and builds on the positive and restorative virtues of not compromising. Alberto Foyo is active internationally as professor, guest critic and lecturer. He is professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University and at the School of Architecture of the City University of New York. He has been a visiting professor at The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, at UNITEC School of Architecture in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Fachochschule in Munich, Germany.

Since 2007 he conducts a permaculture design-build atelier in the Brazilian Amazon basin in conjunction with the Munduruku tribe. He is founding partner and director of Postopia, a think tank focused on clean up policies and cultural sustainability in the highly deteriorated urban environment of the ex Soviet republics. He is co-founding member of the Compostela Institute, an independent international architecture academic program in Spain. He is the architecture department director of Recycled China, a new research and design-build firm based in Beijing that focuses on the manufacturing of architectural materials made with discarded ceramic and discarded metals.

He was recently awarded an Honorary Masters Honoris Causa by the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Alberto Foyo’s extensive academic involvement has become over the years a seamless extension of his practice. His working methodology, based on a multidisciplinary and critical approach, stresses and builds on the positive and restorative virtues of not compromising. Alberto Foyo is active internationally as professor, guest critic and lecturer. He is professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, planning, and preservation at Columbia University and at the School of Architecture of the City University of New York. He has been a visiting professor at The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, at UNITEC School of Architecture in Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Fachochschule in Munich, Germany.

Since 2007 he conducts a permaculture design-build atelier in the Brazilian Amazon basin in conjunction with the Munduruku tribe. He is founding partner and director of Postopia, a think tank focused on clean up policies and cultural sustainability in the highly deteriorated urban environment of the ex Soviet republics. He is co-founding member of the Compostela Institute, an independent international architecture academic program in Spain. He is the architecture department director of Recycled China, a new research and design-build firm based in Beijing that focuses on the manufacturing of architectural materials made with discarded ceramic and discarded metals.

He was recently awarded an Honorary Masters Honoris Causa by the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Kharkov, Ukraine.