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Neil Leach is an architect and interdisciplinary scholar. He is a professor at Florida International University (FIU), a Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Tongji University, and a Professor at the European Graduate School. Additionally, he is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow and a member of the Academia Europaea, Europe’s leading scholarly academy. Over his career, Neil has taught at numerous prestigious institutions, including SCI-Arc, the Architectural Association, Cornell University, Columbia GSAPP, USC, the University of Nottingham, and the Dessau Institute of Architecture. He holds an MA and Dip Arch from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. An accomplished author, Neil has published 27 books, translated into several languages, including Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. With strong ties to China, he serves as a distinguished Chinese Government ‘High-End Foreign Expert’ Visiting Professor at Tongji University and has directed the American Academy in China. He has curated several prominent exhibitions, including those for the Architecture Biennial Beijing. Neil is one of only two architects to have been elected to the Academia Europaea, which counts over 50 Nobel Laureates among its members, underscoring his exceptional contributions to architecture and academia.

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