Emanuele Naboni is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Sevilla, a researcher, and a regenerative urban and architectural designer focusing on digital design. Since 2023, he has been an Adjunct Professor at UNSW Sydney, working alongside Prof. Santamouris. Since 2020, he has led a module at the SOS (Postgraduate School of Sustainability by Mario Cucinella) focusing on Regenerative Design. He has been an Associate Professor of Regenerative Design at the Royal Danish Academy since 2010, continuing part-time from 2021 to contribute to the Master of Architecture in Extreme Environments, a program that received the Global Award for Teaching from the International Association of Architects in 2021. In 2023, he joined the faculty at the Norman Foster Institute in Madrid. He has also taught at several PhD schools and co-taught architectural technology courses with NASA, BIG, CITA, and the Ladybug Tools team.
In recognition of his contributions to the field, Professor Naboni has held appointments at NTNU in Norway, ETH Future Cities Lab in Singapore, EPFL Lausanne, Southeast University in Nanjing, the Architectural Association, and the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California, Berkeley, collaborating with Stanford University. He was also a design leader at the Performance Design Studio of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in San Francisco.
As an architectural technologist and specialist in regenerative design and climate change, he has consulted on over 90 buildings, districts, and master plans, collaborating with Loisos + Ubbelohde, Atkins, Renzo Piano, BIG, Kengo Kuma, William McDonough, Google Technology, and Mario Cucinella Architects. Portions of this work have been showcased at the Chicago Museum of Industry and Science, MoMA New York, the London Building Center, and the Venice Biennale.
Naboni actively participates in European Union projects and has served as a European Commission TAIEX expert. He is an editor of Energy and Buildings and sits on the executive boards of the PLEA and CISBAT conferences. His written work has appeared in RIBA’s publications and DETAIL. He is the author of Green Buildings Pay (Routledge), Regenerative Design in the Digital Practice, and the forthcoming Adapting to Heat, which Elsevier will publish in 2025. Most recently, his expertise has been sought by the World Health Organization (WHO) to support projects in areas facing climate-related challenges.
