Neil Leach

Who is Neil Leach?

Neil Leach is an architect and theorist. He teaches at the University of Southern California, and is a Professor at the European Graduate School, Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Tongji University, and NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. He has also taught at the University of Brighton, University of Bath, Architectural Association School of Architecture, University of Nottingham, Columbia University, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Dessau Institute of Architecture, and Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. He was the co-curator of the A2 Exhibition of Avant-Garde Architecture at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2004, the Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies Exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2006, the material Processes Exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2008, and the Machinic Processes Exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2010. He was also the co-curator of the Swarm Intelligence: Architectures of Multi-Agent Systems Exhibition in Shanghai in 2010, and of the DigitalFUTURE Exhibition in Shanghai in 2011 of the Interactive Shanghai Exhibition in Shanghai in 2013, and of the Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research Exhibition in Beijing in 2013.