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Neil M. Denari
Neil M. Denari is an architect, educator, and author. He received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1980 from the University of Houston. In 1982, he received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. While there, he studied the philosophy of science and also art theory with the expatriate Austrian artist Paul Rotterdam. After graduate studies, he worked for six months as an intern in Paris for Aerospatiale, one of Europe's largest aviation contractors.
Following this excursion in Europe, Denari lived and worked in New York from 1983 to 1988. He worked at James Stewart Polshek & Partners as a senior designer before beginning to teach at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning IN 1986. During this five year period in New York, Denari produced a series of self generated projects and participated in numerous exhibitions, most notably at P.S. 1 in Long Island City in the fall of 1986.
Denari moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to begin practice on the west coast and to begin teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). That year he was a finalist in the West Coast Gateway Competition and the following year Cor-Tex was awarded a 3rd prize in the Tokyo International Forum Competition. For the past eight years, Cor-Tex has produced competitions, projects, installations, and writings on the question of technology and contemporary culture. Denari has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas @ Arlington, Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, The Bartlett in London, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, and Columbia University.
In July 1997, after a year long process and through the review of 60 candidates, he was named the third DIRECTOR of SCI-Arc. It is a non-profit private school founded 25 years ago by architect Ray Kappe and is currently located in Playa Vista, Los Angeles. SCI-Arc is rated 13th among graduate schools of architecture in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and has become one of the most progressive and innovative schools in the world. Mr. Denari is dedicated to the education and development of our future space-makers through rigorous programs and a challenging atmosphere.
INTERRUPTED PROJECTIONS, his first book published a year ago in Tokyo, explores the contemporary landscape of advertising, media saturation and the poetics of technology in our time. This book was recently identified as one the fastest selling architectural books in recent memory as 6,000 copies have been sold in its first year and a half of distribution. He is currently at work on his second book, GYROSCOPIC HORIZONS, to be published jointly by Princeton Architectural Press and Thames and Hudson
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