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Neil Spiller is Editor of AD, Visiting Professor of Architecture at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (2020-2), and was Visiting Professor IAUV Venice (2021). Previously, he was Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture and Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, London. Prior to this, he was Dean of the School of Architecture, Design and Construction and Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory. Before this, he was Vice-Dean and Graduate Director of Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Neil has been Guest Editor of eight editions of AD before becoming Editor in 2018. These include the highly successful Architects in Cyberspace I and II (1995, 1998), Protocell Architecture (2011), and Drawing Architecture (2013). Neil’s books also include Cyberreader: Critical Writings of the Digital Era (2002), Lost Architectures (2002), and Digital Dreams (1998). He has also published books with Thames and Hudson, including Visionary Architecture: Blueprints of the Modern Imagination (2006), Digital Architecture Now (2008), and as co-editor of Educating Architects (2014). He is also the author of Architecture and Surrealism (2016) and How to Thrive in Architecture School: A Student Guide for the RIBA (2020).

His architectural design work has been published and exhibited worldwide. He is an internationally renowned visionary architect and has been architecturally speculating with drawing for four decades. Neil is also known as the founding director of the AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) Group. This group conducts research into advanced technologies and architectural representation, but more importantly, into the impact of advanced technologies such as virtuality and biotechnology on 21st-century design. Neil is also recognized internationally for his paradigm-shifting contribution to architectural discourse, research, experimentation, and teaching.