Ciro Najle
Diploma Architect, Universidad de Buenos Aires UBA FADU Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (honors)
Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (honors)
Research Professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella UTDT EAEU School of Architecture and Urban Studies
Architect with honors for the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (1991), and Master of Advanced Architectural Design with honors for the Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (1997), Ciro Najle is currently Research Professor of the Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
He has been 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, the Universidad Federico Santa María in Valparaíso, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Director of GDB General Design Bureau in Buenos Aires, office of design and research of architectural organizational models, and previously of Mlab Machinic Lab in Valparaiso, laboratory of material research for the development of ecological prototypes, and of MID Meta Infrastructural Domain, awarded with the Young Architect of the Year Second Prize in London 2001, his work has been widely published at international media.
Author of the books The Generic Sublime, Organizational Models for Global Architecture (2016), published by Actar Publishers / Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Suprarural, Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas (2017), with Lluís Ortega, published in English and Spanish by Actar Publishers and awarded with the 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 (2012-present), the introductions to the 2G Gustavo Gili Monographs on FOA Foreign Office Architects (2000) and MGM Morales-Gilles-Mariscal (2009), and prefaces, introductions, and critical essays published in contemporary architecture books.
He is coeditor of Landscape Urbanism, A Manual for the Machinic Landscape (2004), with Mohsen Mostafavi, has collaborated in the editing of Tokyo Bay Experiment, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (1998), Columbia University / Obayashi Corporation, and has edited the Archivos de Arquitectura Modos de Práctica (2013), with Anna Font, Culturas Digitales (2014), with Julián Varas, Tecnologías del Ladrillo (2017), with Francisco Cadau.
His projects, 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, developing design methodologies and contributing to speculate and theorize the disciplinary transformations derived from them regarding material culture and the generation of organizational models.
