Alexandros Tsamis
Assistant Professor
Associate Director CASE / NYC
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Phone: 212-618-3959
Bio
Alexandros Tsamis is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, RPI. He currently serves as the Graduate Program Director of Built Ecologies MS & PhD and as the Associate Director of the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, CASE. Previously, he was the post professional graduate program director in Design at Adolfo Ibanez University in Chile, he taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Knowlton School of Architecture. He has received awards in international architectural competitions; First prize in the International Architecture Competition “London Architecture Gallery”, first prize in the International Design Competition” Gillette Landmark” and a prize in the “Design of Ephemeral Structures” for the Athens Olympics. His work focuses on advanced materials and manufacturing technologies as they relate to advances in computation. He investigates issues related to tectonics and material economies of the built environment at scales that range from that of the object to that of the territory. He has received patents for innovation in materials. His work has been published internationally including the Architectural Design (AD), the Journal of Architectural Historians, Architecture in Formation, Thresholds, Pidgin, 306090 and exhibited widely, including the Museum of Design in Barcelona, the Biennale of Venice, of China and of Chile, RIBA London and the Byzantine Museum of Greece.
Degree Summary
2012. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), Cambridge MA. Department of Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Design and Computation. Area of Study: Tectonics and Digital Technologies Title: Software Tectonics.
2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), Cambridge MA. Department of Architecture, Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Studies (SMArchS), Area of Study: Architecture, Design and Technology. Thesis: Digital Graft: Towards a Non-Homogeneous Materiality.
2001. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, (A.U.Th.), Thessaloniki Greece. Faculty of Engineering, School of Architecture, Diploma in Architecture with Honors, Thesis: ‘Traveler’s Home’