Jesús Vassallo is a registered architect and a professor of architecture at Rice University. Based in Houston and Madrid, his work for private clients and institutions ranges from buildings to urban design, with a consistent emphasis on construction and design excellence. Areas of expertise include residential and cultural design, affordable housing, low-carbon construction, and adaptive reuse. His projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including in the Venice and Chicago Biennials.

Vassallo studied architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (MArch II) and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (Diploma and PhD). In 2004 Vassallo became a licensed architect in Spain, where he worked in the office of Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos as a project architect from 2006 to 2012. He is  currently a licensed architect in the State of Texas, and has active projects across Spain, the United States, and Mexico. 

Prior to Rice University, Vassallo has also taught at IE University, ETSAM, Tokyo Tech, Harvard University and the Boston Architectural College. He is the author of several books including Epics in the Everyday (Park Books, 2020) and Seamless (Park Books, 2016). His articles are published internationally in magazines such as El Croquis, AA Files, 2G, Log, Harvard Design Magazine, Domus, or Arquitectura Viva. Between 2011 and 2017 he was an editor of Circo magazine.

Past and present collaborators include Christian Ayala, Adam Berman, Brendan Carr, Gail Chen, Andrea Gimeno, Alfonso Garduño, Yingying Guan, Amelia Hazinski, Kohen Hudson, Evio Isaac, Alfonso Jimenez Enciso, Elizabeth Jones, Pouya Khadem, Daniel Kuehn, Alejandra Lezcano, Yulong Li, Leyuan Li, Lluís J. Liñán, Josep Vicent Lluch, Kalen McNamara, Onézieme Mouton, Kelsey Olafson, Daria Piekos, Albert Pope, Danny Samuels, Ian Searcy, Srijaya Simhadri, Edward Simpson, Lene Sollie, Peter Stone, Margaret Tudor, Xuanyu Wei, and Rose Wilkowski.