Ciro Najle

Architect (hons) for the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (1991), and Master of Advanced Architectural Design (hons) for the Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (1997), Ciro Najle is Professor of Practice at the RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY / Rome), and Professor of the Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires (on leave of absence).

He was Dean of the Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and previously Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Diploma Unit Master and Director of the Landscape Urbanism Graduate Design Program at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Columbia University, the Berlage Institute, Universidad Federico Santa María, and Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Director of General Design Bureau, office of architecture, design and research in Buenos Aires, of Campo Marzio, center of contemporary arts and architecture in Buenos Aires, and previously of Mlab Machinic Lab, laboratory of material research and organizational prototypes in Valparaiso, and of MID Meta Infrastructural Domain, office of architecture, awarded with the Young Architect of the Year Second Prize in London 2001, his professional work has been widely published at international media.

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Author of the books The Generic Sublime, Organizational Models for Global Architecture (2016, Harvard University / Actar), Suprarural, Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas (2017, Actar, with Lluís Ortega, awarded with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant, 2013), and the upcoming Hypercanon, to be published by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Previous publications include essays and projects published in Quaderns, Space, Oris, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, a+t, Egg, Plot, UR, Notas, Ness, Summa+, the interview series Out of Time in Plot (50 interviews, between 2012 and 2022), the introductions to the 2G Monographs on FOA Foreign Office Architects (2000, Gustavo Gili) and MGM Morales-Gilles-Mariscal (2009, Gustavo Gili), and prefaces, introductions, and essays published in contemporary architecture books, magazines, and websites. 

Coeditor of Landscape Urbanism, A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (2004, AA Publications, with Mohsen Mostafavi), he was editor of the Tokyo Bay Experiment, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (1998, Columbia University / Obayashi Corporation, with Nona Yehia), director of the twelve-book collection series Archivos de Arquitectura (2012/2021, UTDT EAEU), and editor of Modes of Practice (2013, with Anna Font), Digital Cultures (2014, with Julián Varas), Brick Technologies (2017, with Francisco Cadau), and Atlas of Architecture Thesis.

His projects, theoretical production, academic work, and research engage the potentials of the convergence of digital culture, ecological thinking, and complexity theory in architecture at the age of globalization, developing design methodologies and theories contributing to anticipate the profound disciplinary transformations and challenges that their integration introduces in material culture and architectural models.