Neil Denari (b. Fort Worth, Texas September 3, 1957) is an American architect, professor, and author based in Los Angeles since 1988.
His office, Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA) is dedicated to exploring the realms of architecture, design, urbanism, and all aspects of contemporary life.
While at Harvard, he studied the philosophy of science and also art theory with the expatriate Austrian artist Paul Rotterdam, whom Denari has cited as his most influential teacher.
[1][2] After graduate studies, Denari worked for five months as an intern in Paris for Aerospatiale – now Airbus – one of Europe's largest aviation contractors.
Following this, Denari lived and worked in New York City from 1983 to 1988, first 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.