Roi Salgueiro Barrio
Executive Director, MIT-LUMA Lab; Curation Strand Director
Roi Salgueiro Barrio is an architect, urbanist, and curator whose work examines the relationships between architecture, territorial systems, and globalization. He is founder of the design practice RSAU, founding director of the MIT Territorial Design Lab, and curator-director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design. Salgueiro Barrio is co-author of The World as an Architectural Project (MIT Press: 2020), with Hashim Sarkis and Gabriel Kozlowski, co-editor of Internalities (Arquia: 2025), and co-editor of Spanish architectural journal Obradoiro.
Salgueiro Barrio was co-curator of Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium, the Spanish pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, and Principal Assistant Curator of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Oslo Triennale, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, ETH Zurich, and Yale School of Architecture. He holds degrees from the University of Navarra, Harvard University, and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.