Rodia Valladares is an architect, having graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid. He holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is currently Design Principal and managing partner of Studio Gang's Paris office, where he co-leads, along with Ana María Flor, the European team of the firm founded by Jeanne Gang.
Rodia was the project manager for Studio Gang's first built work in France, the recently completed John W. Boyer Center for the University of Chicago in Paris. He is currently leading the proposal for a new commercial tower in the Parisian district of La Défense.
Before establishing the Paris office, Rodia contributed to many of the firm's award-winning projects during his 15 years with the studio. He was the project manager for Rescue Company 2, a fire station in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the Guggenheim Foundation headquarters in Lower Manhattan, and the new U.S. Embassy in Brasília.
Rodia also played a key role in the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice Neighborhood Activation Study, the Writers Theatre, City Hyde Park, and the Samuel H. Scripps Shakespeare Theatre Center in Hudson Valley, currently under construction in Garrison, New York.
