Neil Leach

Neil Leach, an architect, curator, and writer, Neil is currently a Visiting Professor at Harvard University GSD, a Professor at the European Graduate School, a Gao Feng Professor at Tongji University, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. His research interests fall broadly into critical theory and digital design. In critical theory, he has published several monographs and edited volumes, dealing mainly with the impact of importing theoretical tools from critical theory into an architectural arena. These include Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1997); The Anaesthetics of Architecture (MIT Press, 1999); Millennium Culture (Ellipsis, 1999); Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 1999); The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis (Routledge, 2002), China (Map Office, 2004) and Camouflage (MIT Press, 2006). In the field of digital design, he has published several edited volumes, including Designing for a Digital World (Wiley, 2002), Digital Tectonics (Wiley, 2004) Digital Cities (Wiley, 2009), and 3D Printed Body Architecture (Wiley, 2017). He has also been co-curator of the Fast Forward exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2004, the Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2006, and the (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2008.