Doctoral Candidate
Columbia University
Chicago, IL
Malcolm Rio (he/him) is a Chicago-based designer, historian, and educator. His work examines architecture’s public life across international exhibitions, counterpublic formations, nightlife, and popular media. He is a PhD Candidate in architectural history and theory at Columbia University, where his dissertation traces Haiti’s architectural production at world’s fairs and its entanglements with race and transnational identity.
Rio has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia University, the University of Southern California (as the Paul R. Williams Archive Fellow), the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the Maryland Institute College of Art (as an AICAD post-graduate teaching fellow).
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FRI-FS-12: Celebrating LA’s Alternative Public Space: From the Macabre to the Historic
Friday, September 18, 2026
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT