Alexandros Haridis (Αλέξανδρος Χαρίδης) is a Greek architect, computer scientist, design technology expert, and educator. He is currently Lecturer at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Fall 2023–) and faculty affiliate with the Department of Architecture of the Graduate School of Design. He teaches and conducts research in the area of design computation. Alex received a PhD in Architecture: Design and Computation (2022) as a Presidential Fellow and dual Master of Science in Architecture Studies and in Computer Science (2017) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the interface of computation with architecture, design, and human intelligence, and has been supported by a number of fellowships and awards. He has published several articles on the mathematics of shape and shape grammars, critical studies on 20th-century aesthetics in architecture, digital culture and design knowledge production, and on architecture’s role in AI research. These appear in the peer-reviewed journals Computers & Graphics, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Environment and Planning B, among others.
His professional and creative work is characterized by a diversity in scale, medium, and technique always interrogating the boundaries of his own work in relation to that of other disciplines. He has worked as an architect and architectural consultant in Greece and in the U.S., and as a research engineer on applications of computing and AI technology in the built environment and in digital manufacturing. He exhibits creative work internationally, some of which were showcased at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016/2023), the IASS Expo Pavilions (2015), the Biennial of Young Artists in Europe (2013), and the Benaki and Byzantine Culture Museums (2014). Alex holds a Diploma (M.Arch.) of Architect Engineer (2014) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a registered architect in Greece.