Manuel De Landa

Who is Manuel De Landa?

Manuel De Landa, is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a professor of contemporary philosophy and science at the European Graduate School in Switzerland; an adjunct lecturer of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design; a visiting professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where he teaches an intensive 2 week course in the spring term on self-organization and urbanity; and an adjunct professor at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. He was previously an adjunct associate professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and a lecturer at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. De Landa has a BFA from New York's School of Visual Arts.