Alexandros Haridis is a registered architect (M.Arch), design computing researcher, and computer scientist, holding a Ph.D. in Architecture: Design and Computation from MIT. He conducts research and teaches at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Graduate School of Design. He is a Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Data Science Initiative and metaLAB (at) Harvard of the Berkman Klein Center. His work positions architecture as a testbed for questions of computational intelligence, aesthetics, and the mathematical description of form. His writings on design computing, with an emphasis on the formal and historical aspects of algorithmic judgment in architecture and the applied arts, have appeared in Nexus Network Journal (Architecture and Mathematics), Environment and Planning B, Computers & Graphics, and the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts. Haridis has received fellowships and awards from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Harvard Data Science Initiative, the MIT Presidential Fellowship program, and the A.G. Leventis and Onassis Foundations, among others.

He recently directed Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics (https://aestheticsbeyonddata.com/), a critical and creative research platform investigating how computing and AI participate in creative production and algorithmic judgment across architecture and the applied arts. A related research exhibition at the MIT Keller Gallery in Cambridge, MA (on view April 17 – June 30, 2026) presented work from this initiative and was supported by Harvard SEAS, Harvard University’s Office of the Provost, the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and the MIT Department of Architecture. Drawing from contemporary design methods and technology studies on software reconstruction, physical making, and data visualization, the exhibition translates select aesthetic systems from archival sources and academic literature into tangible and experiential formats, extending their traditional mode of scholarship and public presentation into spatial, visual, and material form.

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