Javier Galindo FAAR, is a designer based in New York City. 
He was born and raised in Havana, Cuba.

A key theme of his work is the role of fragmentation and ruins in contemporary architectural discourse and expression. Using form as parts and color as a divisive tool, the projects aim to capture the worldly balance between the natural and the artificial that we find in ruins, and produce an architecture that is incomplete, ambiguous and that offers simultaneous readings, accompanied by sublime effects.
His main research interest is the “Created Fragment”, the type of fragment that has been consciously designed, as opposed to accidently produced by time or circumstance.

Javier has been the recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture by the American Academy in Rome, the Cintas Fellowship in Architecture and Design, the KPF Traveling Fellowship, and several other competition awards and recognitions.

His 20 year professional practice, currently as Design Director at Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York, centers in the design and construction phases of urban large-scale domestic and international projects, ranging from super-tall towers, commercial highrises. retail complexes, repositioning/adaptive reuse, mixed-use developments and masterplans. 
Key projects include Window La Defense in Paris, One Vanderbilt in NYC, Riverside 66 in TIanjin, Tianfu Supertall a 480 meter tower in Chengdu, China, and more recently 520 Fifth Avenue in New York City currently during construction.
He has also practiced professionally in other design firms in Miami and San Francisco.

As an assistant instructor at Cornell University, he has taught Visual Studies and Representation courses.
He is often an invited lecturer and guest critic in universities, and his work has been featured in several publications and periodicals including A+U, Concept Magazine and Threshold journals.

Javier received a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University, where he was the recipient of the Best Thesis Prize, and a Bachelors of Architecture from Florida International University, studying under William G. McMinn in Rome, and Nicolás Quintana in Miami.

EMAIL:  j.galindo.ch@gmail.com