Keynote Lecture
Neil Leach
Digital Morphogenesis
Dessau Institute of Architecture
GermanyNeil Leach teaches at the Dessau Institute of Architecture in Germany, Southern California Institute of
Architecture in Los Angeles, and the London Consortium in London. He has also taught at the Architectural
Association, Cornell University, Columbia GSAPP, University of Bath and University of Nottingham. He is
the author of Camouflage (MIT Press, 2006), Forget Heidegger (Paideia, 2006), China (Map Office, 2004),
Millennium Culture (Ellipsis, 1999) and The Anaesthetics of Architecture (MIT Press, 1999); co-author of
Mars Pants: Covert Histories, Temporal Distortions, Animated Lives (Architecture Foundation, 2000); editor
of Designing for a Digital World (Wiley, 2002), The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the
Modern Metropolis (Routledge, 2002), Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central
and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 1999), and Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (Routledge,
1997); co-editor of Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies: Architects (China Architecture and Building
Press, 2006), Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies: Students (China Architecture and Building Press,
2006), Fast Forward>>, Hot Spots, Brain Cells (Map Office, 2004) and Digital Tectonics (Wiley, 2004); and
co-translator of Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books (MIT Press, 1988).