Alexandros Haridis studied architecture, design computing, and computer science at MIT, where he received a PhD in Architecture: Design and Computation. His work positions architecture and design as testbeds for questions of computational intelligence, aesthetics, and the mathematical description of form.

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 has 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 directs Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics (https://aestheticsbeyonddata.com/), a critical and creative platform that investigates how computing and AI participate in creative production and algorithmic judgment in architecture and the applied arts, beyond data processing and automation. Most recently, he directed a research exhibition at the MIT Keller Gallery in Cambridge, MA (on view April 17 – June 30, 2026), supported by Harvard SEAS, Harvard University’s Office of the Provost, the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, and the MIT Department of Architecture.

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