Adil Mansure

Adil Mansure is a writer, educator and designer. He holds degrees from Cambridge University, Yale University, and Mumbai University. He has worked at architectural practices in Toronto, New York and Mumbai. His current work is located at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of architecture and design studies, and is especially interested in complexity: in artistic and architectural abstraction, technology, language, media, geometry, and in history—and in the translation of ideas amongst these disciplines.

Adil is the co-editor (with Skender Luarasi) of the book Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on the Geometry of the Baroque (Routledge, 2019) and the author of numerous other papers that locate architecture amidst language, technology, geometry, and other sciences and humanities. He also enjoys curatorial work, well evident in his traveling exhibition Instrumentalities of an Eternal Baroque. In these projects, historical discovery is achieved through making and drawing, and not simply by archival study and writing. His forthcoming book The Architecture of Cliché explores oral, pop-cultural, non-literal everyday-language phenomena such as rhymes, riddles, and ventriloquism; the focus being on how our participation in a complex shared medium generates form, medium, discourse, space, and indeed, subjects of architecture.

Adil enjoys exploring these thoughts through collaborative discourses involving colleagues and students, and he has previously taught at The University of Toronto, University at Buffalo, Laurentian University and OCAD University.