Bio
Theodore Spyropoulos (1976) is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab [DRL] in London. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies working with the Interrogative Design Group and co-founded the New Media Research Initiative at the Architectural Association. He has also taught in the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania and the Royal College of Art, Innovation Design Engineering Department.
Theodore cofounded with Stephen Spyropoulos the experimental architecture and design practice Minimaforms. The work of Minimaforms has been exhibited internationally and is part of the collections of the FRAC Centre (France), the Signum Foundation (Poland) and the Archigram Archive (UK), A recent 208 page monograph called Enabling was published AA press in 2010. A forthcoming publication on his research at the AADRL on Adaptive Ecologies will be launched in the Fall 2011.
:: Photo information and credits:
1 > Archigram Revisit, ‘Mega-Structures Reloaded’, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
2 > Archigram Revisit, ‘Mega-Structures Reloaded’, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
3 > Becoming Animal, Suffolk, England, 2007
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
4 > Brunel Gateway, London, England, 2007–current
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
5 > Brunel Gateway, London, England, 2007–current
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
6 > Facebreeder, Selfridges shop front, London, England, 2004
Minimaforms in collaboration with Vasili Stroumpakos
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
7 > Facebreeder, Selfridges shop front, London, England, 2004
Minimaforms in collaboration with Vasili Stroumpakos
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
8 > Memory Cloud, London, England, 2008
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Jiin Yi Hwang
09 > Memory Cloud, London, England, 2008
Minimaforms
photo courtecy © Jiin Yi Hwang
10 > Vehicle, 2006–current
Minimaforms in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko
photo courtecy © Minimaforms
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