Juan Andres Machado is founder of the Caracas-based firm ODA–Oficina de Arquitectura, which he co-founded with Eric Brewer Leal in 1997, and Director of ODA–Arq. He was educated at Westminster College in Pennsylvania, and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.He has taught at the Universidad Jose Maria Vargas and Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, as well as Columbia University in New York.