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Bio

TL;DR: Queer BIPOC Ph.D. in Arch.

Malcolm Rio is a graphic and architectural designer and thinker residing in New York City. They are currently a Ph.D. student at Columbia University where they research the intersections of race, sexuality, environment, architecture, and urbanism currently focused on the 18th and 19th centuries. Rio received their MS in architecture studies (SMArchS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with several distinctions including the 2019 SMArchS Thesis Prize and the Arthur Rotch Special Prize for their research on the urbanism of house-ballroom culture in New York City. Rio also holds a Master of Architecture (M.Arch) from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a BS in philosophy and a BFA in graphic design from Towson University. They have taught seminars and studios in foundations, graphic design, and architecture at RISD and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Their scholarship, criticism, and interviews have appeared in Thresholds, Avery Review, The New York Review of Architecture, ArchitectureMPS, and Pidgin, as well as within a forthcoming volume on sexuality, gender, and architecture titled Living Room (edited by Sophie Hochhäusl).