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Neil Leach

FIU Architecture Professor/ DDES

Neil Leach is an architect and interdisciplinary scholar, serving as a professor at FIU, a Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD and Tongji University, and a Professor at the European Graduate School. A NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow and Academia Europaea member, he has taught at top institutions like SCI-Arc, Cornell, Columbia GSAPP, and USC. He holds an MA and Dip Arch from Cambridge and a PhD from Nottingham. The author of 27 books translated into multiple languages, he has strong ties to China, where he is a distinguished Visiting Professor. He has also curated major exhibitions, including for the Architecture Biennial Beijing. Learn more about Neil and his practice here.

Learn more about Neil Leach’s lecture and watch the recording here.

Manuel Jiménez García

CEO / Co-founder of Nagami

Manuel Jiménez García is the co-founder of the robotics manufacturing company Nagami.Design (3D printing) based in Spain and principal of madMdesign, a computational design practice based in London. His work has been exhibited worldwide in venues such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Canada´s Design Museum (Toronto), Royal Academy of Arts (London), Zaha Hadid Design Gallery (London), Clerkenwell Design Week (London) and X Spanish Architectural Biennale (Madrid). Learn more about Manuel and Nagami.Design here.

Learn more about Manuel Jiménez García’s lecture and watch the recording here.

Panel Discussion

Daniel Bolojan, FAU

Joseph Choma, FAU

Smaro Katsangelou, FAU

Lorena Knesevic, FIU

Neil Leach, FIU

Lars Lerup, Formerly Rice

John Stuart, FIU

A thought-provoking panel discussion exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on architectural education. Esteemed scholars and practitioners will delve into how AI is reshaping design processes, pedagogy, and the future of the profession. Panelists include Daniel Bolojan, Assistant Professor and the Director of the Creative AI Lab (FAU), Joseph Choma, Director of the School of Architecture and Professor of Architecture (FAU), Smaro Katsangelou, PhD candidate in Architecture, AI & Robotics at FAU, Lorena Knesevic, DDes candidate in Architecture, AI, AR, and VR at FIU, Neil Leach, Professor, moderator (FIU), Lars Lerup, Former Dean of Architecture, Rice University, and John Stuart, Distinguished University Professor (FIU).

Learn more about the panel discussion and watch the recording here.

Panel Discussion with

Neil Leach, moderator

Patrik Schumacher

Refik Anadol

at 2025 Design Miami, Miami Beach

2025 Design Miami panel discussion

“Architecture in the Age of AI”

AI has been unleashed. Nothing is going to be quite the same again.

This session brings back together two of the original pioneers in the field of AI and Architecture, RefikAnadol and Patrik Schumacher. Anadol is one of the leading voices in the world of AI and Media Art, while Schumacher is the principal of one of the most progressive architecture practices in the world, Zaha Hadid Architects. Over the past 5 years, they have collaborated on a series of projects and generated the first GAN–produced and the first diffusion model–produced architectural designs.

In this session, they come back together to reflect on what has happened in the 5 years since their original collaborations, and to predict what will happen in the next 5 years.