In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.
Kathimerini English Edition Feature on Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics (May 2026)
In a new exhibition at MIT, Alexandros Haridis probes how computers have tried to answer one of humanity’s oldest questions
Research Exhibition | On view at MIT Keller Gallery
Beyond Data-Driven Aesthetics explores how academic and industry efforts in the United States transformed computing into a medium for creative expression and aesthetic judgment.
Talk – Design X Intelligence Symposium (April 2026)
Talk on algorithmic judgment, aesthetics, and the limits of data-driven creativity in architecture and the applied arts.
Does acquiring design or cultural competence depend on acquiring a "visual common sense"? Evidence from the JONES-19 cultural design dataset.
Journal Article – Nexus Network Journal (2026)
How do we formulate intelligence computationally to include aesthetic judgment alongside reason and ethics? This article reclaims Kant's central concept as essential to architecture and design.
Journal Publication – Journal of Math and the Arts (2026)
How do we encode change and innovation into design data for AI? This paper proposes rule-based methods for encoding architectural innovation computationally.
Talk – UPenn School of Design (November 2025)
Can a computational system judge the design of architecture’s products? Is aesthetic value judgment central to evaluating architecture?
Conference Publication – ACM KUI 2025
Are "design archives" an untapped frontier for human-aligned AI? A new dataset, JONES-19, provides the testbed.
Design Collections | Design Knowledge
Are design or architectural archives an encoded form of human intelligence? What distinguishes them from typical ML datasets?
Conference Publication – CAADRIA 2025
Can AI code generation and multimodal reasoning democratize design computing tasks traditionally performed by experts?
Talk – metaLAB (at) Harvard (February 2024)
Talk focusing on the term “generative” and the computational interpretations it receives in design computing in architecture and related design areas.
ES138 Computing Design & Values – Harvard University
Research-oriented course on the foundations, use, and prospects of computing in design. Jointly offered by Harvard's Computer Science and Architecture areas.
Talk – New York Institute of Technology (February 2024)
Title of Talk: "The Generative in Design, Science and Technology"
Mathematics of Design | Shape Description and Computation
A new way of describing shape and spatial form with applications to architecture, design, computability, morphology, human perception, and AI
Talk – Harvard University (November 2024)
Title of Talk: "Calculating the Built Environment"
Book Chapter – Springer Nature and MIT Architecture (2025)
A geometric system for perceptually processing parts of 2D or 3D shapes as “visual queries,” with applications to shape embedding and comparison.
Black City Astrolabe – Venice Biennale 2023
The BLACK city Astrolabe is a digital database and a physical data sculpture.
Public PhD Defense – MIT Department of Architecture
Public presentation of my PhD work at the intersection of computation, mathematics of shapes, and aesthetic intelligence
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – MIT CSAIL
Teaching and curriculum development on artificial intelligence
Journal Article – Environment and Planning B (2022)
Publication of the journal article: “Analysis of shape grammars: continuity of rules”
Journal Article – Computers and Graphics (2022)
Publication of the journal article: “SHREC’21: Quantifying Shape Complexity”
Workshop Track – Eurographics 2021
Organization of the workshop track: "Quantifying Shape Complexity," at the 2021 Eurographics Workshop Series on 3D Object Retrieval
Journal Article – Journal of Math and the Arts (2020)
Publication of the journal article: “Structure from appearance: topology with shapes without points”
NASA Centennial Challenges Finalist
Final Exhibition Entry for NASA’s Centennial Challenges: 3D Printed Habitat for deep space exploration - MIT Digital Structures Group
Material-Aware Basic Grammar – MIT
Material-aware basic grammar for generating designs with embedded joints
Computational Structural Design – MIT
Computational methods for computing gridshells and trusses for architectural design applications
Algorithmic Cover Design for Music Records
Sound data visualization for the algorithmic design of electronic music record covers
