He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996 and has been a full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2012. Previously, he taught at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (E.T.S.A.M.U.P.M.) and was an invited professor at numerous universities, including MIT, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Cornell University and University of Texas.