Reto Geiser
Senior Fellow 2024–2025

Reto Geiser is an architect and scholar specializing in modern architecture. He serves as an associate professor at the Rice University School of Architecture (US), where his research explores the impact of architectural modernity on representation and media, design pedagogy, and the historiography of architecture. Situated at the intersection of multiple disciplines, Reto is interested in fostering dialogue between past and present, as well as between theoretical inquiry and engaged practice.

Reto’s current research projects include “Reverse Ruins,” which examines construction site photography, and a critical monograph on Miami-based Arquitectonica’s work in Houston during the 1980s. He is the author of Giedion and America: Repositioning the History of Modern Architecture (2018) and the editor of Liberated Dwelling (2019), the first English translation of Sigfried Giedion’s seminal 1929 manifesto. Reto also edited and designed Archetypes: David K. Ross(2021), which featured a series of architectural mock-ups staged at night, highlighting how these objects function as a form of proto-architecture.

As a founding partner of the award-winning design practice MG&Co., Reto develops spatial strategies across a variety of scales, from the book to the house.