Email

xuanluo@um.edu.mo

Tel

+853 8822 8293

Office

W32-G006

Consultation Hours

By Appointment

LUO, Xuan

羅旋

EDUCATION

  • 2018–2024｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, MA
    Ph.D., History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture
  • 2015–2017｜Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
    Master in Design Studies, History and Philosophy of Design
  • 2009–2014｜The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, New York
    Bachelor of Architecture

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

  • Adjunct Lecturer, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
  • Spring 2025 ARCH2600, History/Theory 02, world architecture, urbanism and landscapes from 1700 CE to the 1960’s

PROFESSIONAL DESIGN EXPERIENCE

  • 2014–2015 Associate Architect, Peter Pennoyer Architects, New York
    Contributed to design development, construction documents, and construction administration for the House in New Jersey and House in Palm Beach.
  • 2013 Architectural Intern, Alexander Gorlin Architects, New York
    Contributed to schematic design and model development for the Sterling Forest House and Miami Beach House.
  • 2011–2012 Architectural Intern, Eiroa Architects, New York
    Assisted with research, schematic design, and conceptual drawings for House II version C (Southampton), Storefront for Art and Architecture installation (NYC), A Critical Surface (NYC), Landscape Urban Ecology: Groundscraper Condominium beachfront project (East Uruguay)

RESESRCH INTERESTS

  • History and Theory of Architecture and the City
  • Environmental and Ecological Design Studies
  • Architectural Research and Design

  • 2024 Research Assistant, Harvard University FAS CAMLab, Cambridge, MA
  • 2019 Research Assistant, Harvard University GSD, Cambridge, MA
    • Collaboration with Professor Christine Smith on the digital reconstruction of the Old St. Peter’s Church in Rome, circa 1450s.
    • Research findings published in Eyewitness to Old St. Peter’s: A Study of Maffeo Vegio’s “Remembering the Ancient History of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome,” with Translation and a Digital Reconstruction of the Church (Christine Smith and Joseph O’Connor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
  • 2013 Research Assistant, The Cooper Union, New York
    • Contributed to research for Architecture In Formation: On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture (Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher, Routledge, 2013).

  • 2018–2024 Presidential Fellowship, MIT
  • 2019 Royal-Anderson Travel Fund, MIT
  • 2016 Final Project Research and Development Award, Harvard GSD
  • 2015–2017 Marco Polo Program Banco Santander Scholar, Harvard University

  • 2024 “Man in the Column.” Tangent Essays, January 5, 2024.
  • 2021 Chinese Translation (with Jianjia Zhou) of Peter Eisenman’s book Palladio Virtuel. Beijing: China Architecture and Building Press.
  • 2018 Chinese Translation (with Tairan An and Ruo Jia) of Peter Eisenman’s book The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture. Translator’s Introduction by Xuan Luo. Beijing/Shanghai: Tongji University Press.
  • 2018 “Translators’ Afterword for Peter Eisenman’s The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture,” with Tairan An and Ruo Jia, Time+Architecture, 2018 (3): 55–57.
  • 2017 “Aporia and Its Disclosure,” Log 41 (Fall 2017, Working Queer): 55–62.
  • 2016 “When Face Walks,” MASKS: The Journal of Dissimulation in Art | Architecture | Design, Issue 0: NIX (Spring 2016): 28–32.
  • 2015–2017 Article Translations (English to Chinese):
    • Dana Cuff, Roger Sherman, “Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture’s Engagement with the City,” Time+Architecture, 2016 (2), 22–27.
    • Antoine Picon, “Ghost of Architecture: The Project and Its Codification,” with Tairan An, Time+Architecture, 2016 (3), 162–167.
  • 2015 “Eyes of Oedipus: A Library at the Germania Bank Site,” Diane Lewis, ed., Open City: An Existential Approach (Milano: Charta, 2015).

  • 2025 Harvard Conflux Collective workshop lecture (scheduled)
    Lecture title: “A Sordid Boon: Euro-American Architecture in the Modern Microbial Age”
  • 2025 Isogloss Workshop 2025: Critical Writing, Magazine Publishing, and Collective Practice (scheduled)
    Seminar title: “On Tangent Essays” (with Tairan An)
  • 2023 August Perret Prize Symposium, Tongji University, Shanghai
    Symposium title: “Convention in Invention, Invention in Convention”
    Served as a respondent to Santiago Etien, “Early Mass-Produced Houses and August Perret”
  • 2022 Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Pittsburgh
    Session title: “Bodies, Buildings and Health in the Age of Empire”
    Paper title: “Microbiopolitics at the Dawn of Antimicrobial Design and Education” (accepted, unable to attend)
  • 2022 Werner Oechslin Library Conference, Tongji University, Shanghai
    Conference title: “On Palladio and His Influences”
    “Aemulatio and Translatio: Two Architects After Andrea Palladio”
  • 2022 The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, Seminar on World Architecture (Instructor: Tairan An)
    Lecture title: “By Way of the Dust: Architecture and the Microbe, 1850-1930”
  • 2020 Cambridge University Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) International Conference
    Panel title: “Postcolonialism and Subaltern Memory”
    Paper title: “Prefacing and Effacing: A Postscript to Spivak’s ‘Preface’ to Derrida’s Of Grammatology”

2022–Present｜Co-Founder and Editor, Tangent Essays (https://www.tangentessays.com/) Tangent Essays is an online and print platform featuring periodic writings on architecture. Alongside publishing, we also undertake design commissions spanning spatial, architectural, and exhibition-related projects.

  • 2025 Exhibition designer (with Tangent Essays), “Graphic Constellation,” Wuhan
  • 2024–2025 Harvard University FAS CAMLab, Cambridge MA Research Assistant for multimedia art program, “Infinite Microscapes: Exploring Microcosmic Visions in Art and Architecture”
  • 2024 Essay contributor and installation designer (with Tangent Essays), “Kochidoko: An Exhibition by Keiko Taniguchi and Tangent Essays,” Bungee Space, NYC