Miguel Rodríguez Casellas holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design form the University of Puerto Rico. His master’s thesis in 1991 already showed a concern for large-scale projects next to other interests in art criticism and cultural theory.
In the early nineties, Rodríguez Casellas worked at Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, where he cultivated a taste for large-scale urban projects.
In recent years, Miguel partnered with architect Miguel Szendrey Ramos in a firm they named Ordinal, a multidisciplinary platform that seeks to radicalize professional practice from a fresh, rather playful perspective, looking for the vindication of a generation of architects that, according to them, lack a coherent cultural project. The name Ordinal plays with the etymology of a word that simultaneously produced the terms “order” and “ordinary,” as it is the search for hidden organizing patterns within the banal and ordinary what constitutes the methodological premise of the firm.
Since 1996, Rodríguez Casellas has been a professor of Theory, History and Design at ARQPOLI, the School of Architecture at Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, and succeeded Jorge Rigau as dean in 2006.

FabAcademy student Benito Juarez working on his open energy network
With their final projects approaching at the beginning of July, students of the FabAcademy had discussions with Prof. Neil Greshenfeld ng.cba.mit.edu at Fablab central on the polycom to progress with their projects, He gave them pointers on how to go ahead on the programming and technical parts of their projects. Fablab Bcn projects range from energy generating systems, weaving machines to electronic wearable accessories. More on students projects at fabacademy in Barcelona can be found at fabacademy.org/blog. Students are  now preparing for their presentations.