Nadir Lahiji is Adjunct Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is an architect, educator and a critical theorist. He teaches architecture theory, modernity, and contemporary criticism in the intersection of philosophy, radical social theory and psychoanalytical theory. He has taught in number of institutions including the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Pratt Institute, Georgia Tech in the US, and the Lebanese American University, Beirut.