Architect with honors for the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Master of Advanced Architectural Design with honors for Columbia University, Ciro Najle is Dean and Research Professor of the Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He has been 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, and Visiting Professor at Cornell, Columbia, the Berlage, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Director of GDB General Design Bureau in Buenos Aires, and previously of Mlab Machinic Lab in Valparaiso, and of MID Meta Infrastructural Domain, Young Architect of the Year Second Prize in London 2001. Author of the books The Generic Sublime (Actar / Harvard GSD, 2016), and Suprarural (Actar, 2017, with Lluís Ortega), Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant (2013). His publications include essays and projects in Quaderns, Space, Oris, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, a+t, Egg, Plot, UR, Notas, Ness, Summa+, the interview series Out of Time in Plot, the introductions to the 2G Monographs on FOA (2000) and MGM (2009), and critical essays published in architecture books. Coeditor of Landscape Urbanism, A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (2004, with Mohsen Mostafavi), collaborating editor of Tokyo Bay Experiment, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Columbia / Obayashi, 1998), editor of the Archivos de Arquitectura Modos de Práctica (2013, with Anna Font), Culturas Digitales (2014, with Julián Varas), and Tecnologías del Ladrillo (2017, with Francisco Cadau). His theoretical production, academic work, and design research engage the potentials that result of the convergence of digital culture, ecological thinking and complexity theory in architecture at the age of globalization (www.cironajle.org).
