Jorge Otero-Pailos

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jorge Otero-Pailos
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Oct 27, 1971(1971-10-27)
Age	53
Birthplace	Madrid
Country	Spain
Birth City	Community of Madrid
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jorge Otero-Pailos Biography

Jorge Otero-Pailos is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on October 27, 1971 in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.

Jorge Otero-Pailos (born 27 October 1971) is an artist, preservation architect, theorist and educator, commonly associated with experimental preservation and the journal Future Anterior. He is best known for his “The Ethics of Dust” ongoing series of artworks derived from the cleaning of monuments, which was exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Westminster Hall, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and SFMoMA, amongst others. He is Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP).

Jorge Otero-Pailos was born in Madrid, the only son of Justo Otero, a landscape painter and forestry engineer, and María Jesús Pailos, a computer scientist. His early childhood was marked by international travel to historic sites, facilitated by his mother’s employment by Iberia Airlines, and Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy, which made it easier for Spaniards to go abroad. He attended the Lycée Français de Madrid, an international secular school in a country where Catholic education was the norm. His father taught him painting. In 1985, Otero-Pailos traveled to the United States through a study abroad program, and was a foreign exchange student at Barrington High School, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where his art teacher introduced him to Frank Lloyd Wright, and encouraged him to study architecture.

Jorge Otero-Pailos Net Worth

Jorge Otero-Pailos is one of the richest Architect from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jorge Otero-Pailos 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Space-Time is a reconstruction of Harold Edgerton’s iconic 1964 photograph “Bullet Through Apple,” done in collaboration with the MIT Museum, the Edgerton Center, and the MIT Department of Architecture. Otero-Pailos used Edgerton’s own instruments to take the photo again, 50 years later. While conducting the reconstruction, examining the direction of the bullet’s rotation, Otero-Pailos discovered that Edgerton had flipped the negative while printing his photograph, and that the iconic image is in fact backwards. Otero-Pailos decided to “correct” this. In his photograph, the bullet travels left to right, rather than right to left as in the original.

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In 2004 he founded the journal Future Anterior, the first scholarly journal in the US to focus on the history theory and criticism of historic preservation, published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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Juan Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Jorge Otero-Pailos celebrates birthday on October 27 of every year.

In 2016, he was appointed as the Director of Historic Preservation at Columbia University GSAPP.