Born and raised in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, José Ignacio Kempff Seleme is an architect with Spanish and European architectural licensure. While getting his BSc in Foundations of Architecture at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM) within the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he complemented his education at the Technische Universität München. After getting his licensure with an M.Arch at ETSAM, José Ignacio was awarded a postgraduate degree in BIM from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Currently, he is pursuing an MSc in Architectural Computation at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in London.

José Ignacio explores the boundaries of architecture and urbanism in the American and European context across history, theory and practice, identifying and analyzing their interrelationships, with a particular focus on computational methodologies and new digital instruments. He focuses on computational design tools for the built environment at multiple scales, as both method and application. Having worked in architecture studios in Bolivia and Germany, and most recently in Spain at Ensamble Studio, Ingeser and Quark (Sener Group), José Ignacio collaborates as a computational design specialist with Miautics, a team of experts in the creation of digital instruments for the generation, research, simulation and representation of design, architecture and urbanism. At Miautics, he mentors M.Arch students in their design projects, guiding them on workflows, communication, and advanced modeling techniques.