Javier Bidot-Betancourt is a designer and planning consultant whose work sits at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and real estate development. He holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where his graduate thesis explored the use of territorial infrastructure and adaptive land-making as tools of sovereign agency in the Persian Gulf—proposing a modular "archipelago" for Qatar that redefined borders through corporate-state spatial alliances. As an undergraduate at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, his research focused on the post-military redevelopment of the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base, advancing a methodology he termed “eco-structural planning”—a systems-based urban framework that co-opted existing and proposed infrastructural systems to enable long-term sustainability and strategic adaptation.

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Prior to founding Lars Buro, Javier was a designer at Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York City, where he worked on large-scale, high-profile projects at the intersection of culture, infrastructure, and public space. His portfolio includes contributions to the Tianjin Juilliard School, the Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney, the London Centre for Music, and Google’s Pier 57 headquarters—projects that demanded sophisticated coordination between design vision, stakeholder engagement, and programmatic execution across diverse urban and political contexts.

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Today, through Lars Buro, Javier brings that same rigor and multidimensional thinking to development strategy—offering clients a unique combination of design intelligence, business alignment, and execution-focused advisory. His practice is grounded in the belief that the future of the built environment demands agility, narrative clarity, and the ability to translate complex goals into visionary, actionable form.