B.Arch with honors, Universidad Iberoamericana; M.Arch, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Edgar Rodríguez is a Mexican architect and educator. He is an Assistant Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and the founding director of operadora. an architecture and design practice based in Mexico City and Syracuse, NY.
His practice is dedicated to low-cost and adaptive reuse projects and through his research explore the cultural and semiotic dimensions of architecture through a sustained interest in the contemporary, the vernacular, and the ordinary. His professional and academic production spans a wide range of media—including built works, writing, photography, curatorial projects, and art—operating across diverse contexts, formats, and scales. Selected works and writing have been featured in Flash Art Volumes, The Brooklyn Rail, The Architect’s Newspaper, Arquine, and RUMOR, among others.
Rodríguez holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s degree in architecture with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Buildings and Projects
- Brick Towers / Image-Aided Construction (2024)
- 076 The Game (2022), in collaboration with Sander Verbeek.
- House in Singuilucan (2022)
- House in Ixtapan (2019)
- Hyper-personalization (2018-2022)
- House Within a Cube I and II (2017)
- Revolución 1107 (2017)
Exhibitions
- Reuse: Architectures of Almost Nothing, Laguna, Mexico City, Mexico. February, 2026. Co-Curator with María Muñoz. Appointed by invitation.
- “Espíritu del Momento” by Edgar Rodriguez / operadora. at Atlas de Arquitectura Contemporánea en México, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico. September 10, 2025. Invited Group Exhibition.
- In Process: Alternative Methods in Reading Evolving Buildings, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. September 2025. Volunteered. As group collective (R.Crosetto, A.Ghosh, E. Rodriguez, L.Salazar, L.Scott, P.Sequero, M.Valdevenito.) With support from The Architectural League of New York and The New York State Council on the Arts.
- To Whom It May Concern:, Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge, MA. 2019. Co-curator with Inés Benítez.
- La Bienal de Venecia 23, Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, Mexico City, Mexico. 2018. Co-curator with María Marín de Buen, Luis Young, Ana Nuño de Buen, mononom.
Lectures and Papers
Books
- Vernacular Form (prima press, 2025)
