Dr. Athanassios Economou is Associate Professor in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches graduate and undergraduate architectural design studios and a series of core and elective courses in the field of Design and Computation. Design projects from his graduate studios at Georgia Tech have received prestigious awards and honorable mentions in international and national architectural competitions.
His recent research projects include a web-based database and shape grammar for the US Federal Law Courthouses (CourtsWeb, 2006-2006), the interactive project Isovox: Immersive synaesthetic environments with games engines technologies (2005-06), the project LineSpace: Pictorial and immersive essays of classical Greek urbanism (2006-07), and the project Sieve: A computational approach for the automated generation of all design structures based on one axis of growth (2005-07).
He has served on the Technical committee for the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA), the Scientific Committee of Mathematics and Design (M&D), the Scientific Committee of Computational Aesthetics, and others. He has been invited to lecture at several Universities including MIT, Cambridge, GSD-Harvard, Cambridge, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, the University of Los Angeles, (UCLA), the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, the University of the Aegean, Greece and others.
He holds a Diploma in Architecture (1990) from the National Technical University (NTUA), Athens, Greece, a Masters of Architecture (1992) from the University of Southern California (USC), and a PhD in Architecture (1998) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).