Pedro Rivera is an architect and urbanist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and New York. He is a founding partner of RUA arquitetos (since 2008) and Adjunct Assistant Professor at GSAPP Columbia University (since 2019). From 2011-17, he was director and curator at GSAPP’s Studio-X Rio, part of an international network to explore the future of our environments.

Pedro had works exhibited at MoMA (New York, 2014), MAK (Wien, 2015), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, 2016), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, 2016) and MAM São Paulo (2017); as well as in the architecture biennials of Hong Kong / Shenzen (2014), Chicago (2015), Venice (2016) and São Paulo (2017).

His architectural designs include the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course Clubhouse, art galleries, exhibitions and cultural spaces for NGOs in the favelas of Rio.