Dr. Abel Maciel is an architect and researcher based in London, United Kingdom.
As a Senior Research Associate, he tutors at UCL’s Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and the Faculty of Engineering.
He is the founding director of Design Computation Ltd, a specialist consultancy based in London. There, he focuses on the development and delivery of complex Building Information Modelling, Programmatic Design, and Smart Contracts.
He is a founding director of the Construction Blockchain Consortium and the initiator of the Design Computation Wiki, an open knowledge platform for computational design.