Architect
Iñaki Leite is a Galician architect who runs inaki leite design, a practice based in Dubai and working across the United Arab Emirates and Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands. He took his architecture degree at the University of A Coruña (ETSAC) and later completed the Part 3 seminar at the Architectural Association in London, and he holds a doctorate from the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM). For nearly a decade he was an associate professor in the Building Technology Department at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, teaching building systems and energy efficiency, and earlier in his career he worked with Eisenman Architects in New York and AMID.cero9 in Madrid. He designs furniture alongside buildings; his Arousa chair and dining table, made for Dezanove House, have been shown in Galicia and abroad. Featured project on Slow Casa: Dezanove House, a shore house near A Pobra do Caramiñal clad in recycled mussel-farm timber, on which he acted as architect, site director and furniture designer.