Leire Asensio-Villoria

Leire Asensio is a senior urban design and architecture lecturer and Co-Director of the Advance Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) at the University of Melbourne School of Design. Previously, Leire was a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2010-2017), taught design and theory at Cornell University’s department of architecture (2006-2010) and Landscape Urbanism at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association, London (2004-2007). Professionally, Leire has worked within international design practices, including Zaha Hadid Architects and Arup. Since 2002, Leire has collaborated with David Mah as asensio_mah, as editors, writers, and producers of architectural and creative works.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.