Dr. Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s world-renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London, and a member of its Academic Board and Internal Assessment Committee. He has served during his twenty-year tenure at the Architectural Association in various leadership roles such as chair of the Graduate School (GMC), member of its Senior Management Committee and co-founder of New Media and Information Systems Research Cluster. Outside the AA he has been Professor of Architecture at the Staedelschule, a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, a Distinguished guest professor at the Leopold Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Institute for Experimental Architecture Hochbau, taught at UPENN, and the Royal College of Art Innovation Design Engineering department.
He co-founded the experimental art, architecture and design practice Minimaforms. The work of Minimaforms has been acquired by international art and architecture collections that include the FRAC Centre, the Signum Foundation and the M+ Archigram Archive in Hong Kong. His work has published and exhibited internationally including the MOMA (NYC), Barbican Centre, FRAC Centre Orleans, Onassis Cultural Centre, Somerset House, Detroit Institute of Arts, Leonardo Da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology, National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, Guangdong Science Centre and the ICA.
Theodore has previously worked for the offices of Peter Eisenman, Homa Farjadi, and Zaha Hadid. In 2013 the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture awarded him the ACADIA Award of excellence for his educational work directing the AADRL. He has been published internationally including authoring Adaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of Living (2013), Enabling (2010) and forthcoming publications Behaviours (2024) and Quantum Architectures (2024). He received his Bachelor of Architecture with honours from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, his Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Association and his PhD from University College of London, Bartlett School of Architecture.