Professor of Practice
Greene Building, 304

518-276-4060

Master of Advanced Architectural Design, Columbia University; Diploma Architect, Universidad de Buenos Aires UBA FADU Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo

Ciro Najle, 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), Professor in Practice at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the former Dean and Research Professor (on leave of absence) for the Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, and he was 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, office of architecture, design and research in Buenos Aires, of Campo Marzio, center for contemporary arts and architecture in Buenos Aires, and previously of Mlab Machinic Lab, laboratory of material research for the development of ecological prototypes in Valparaiso, and of MID Meta Infrastructural Domain, awarded with the Young Architect of the Year Second Prize in London 2001. His work has been published at international media, including essays and projects published in Quaderns, Space, Oris, Praxis, Harvard Design Magazine, a+t, Egg, Plot, UR, Notas, Ness, Summa+, the 50-interview series Out of Time in Plot Magazine (2012-2022), the introductions to the 2G Monographs on FOA Foreign Office Architects (2000) and MGM Morales-Gilles-Mariscal (2009), and several prefaces, introductions, interviews, and critical essays published in contemporary architecture books, magazines, zines, and websites.

Author of the books The Generic Sublime, Organizational Models for Global Architecture (Actar Publishers / Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2016), and Suprarural, Atlas of Rural Protocols of the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas (Actar Publishers, English and Spanish, 2017), with Lluís Ortega, awarded with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant (2013), and editor of the Landscape Urbanism, Manual for the Machinic Landscape (Architectural Association, 2004), with Mohsen Mostafavi, he collaborated on the editing of the book Tokyo Bay Experiment, Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto (Columbia University / Obayashi Corporation, 1998), with Nona Yehia. He was director of the 12-book series Archivos de Arquitectura (2012 / 2021), and author of Modos de Práctica (2013), with Anna Font, Culturas Digitales (2014), with Julián Varas, and Tecnologías del Ladrillo (2017), with Francisco Cadau.

His architectural projects, theoretical production, academic work, and design research engage the potentials of the convergence of digital culture, ecological thinking, and complexity theory in architecture at the age of globalization, developing design and research methodologies and contributing to their structural disciplinary transformations they involve in regard to material culture and to the generation of new organizational models.