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Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the director of the Architectural Association’s world-renowned Design Research Lab (DRL) in London. Spyropoulos directs the experimental architecture and design studio minimaforms with his brother, Stephen Spyropoulos. Recent projects include a series of thematic landmarks for a Renzo Piano master-planned national park in Athens; a large-scale work of Land art in Norway; a vehicle in collaboration with the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko; and an immersive ephemeral environment for the city of Detroit.

theodore SPYROPOULOS
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Category5 (lisa CUMMING, jorge MÉNDEZ-CÁCERES, drew MERKLE, & nada TARYAM): Category 5 is comprised of Lisa Cumming [NZL], Jorge Méndez-Cáceres [PUR], Drew Merkle [USA] and Nada Taryam [UAE], and formed within the ProtoDesign Agenda of Theodore Spyropoulos Studio at the Design Research Lab at the Architectural Association, School of Architecture. The premise of the studio was one that sought to challenge the means and processes of scientific research in adopting a self-organising architectural system that employs a bottom up approach to design. Through this method of design, we employed both analogue and digital models and simulation techniques in order to rigorously explore the potential of the prototype in architectural design.

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