Alexandros Haridis

The art of computing our discerning intelligence

Alexandros Haridis is Lecturer at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Fall 2023–) and faculty affiliate at the Graduate School of Design. He teaches and conducts research in the area of design computation. He received a PhD in Architecture: Design and Computation (2022) and dual Master of Science in Architecture Studies and in Computer Science (2017) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alex’s current research shapes the twentieth-century emergence of an “aesthetic intelligence” in architecture influenced by theories of computability, digital information, aesthetic formalism, and advances in AI computing technology–an inquiry developed in journal articles and as the primary theme of his upcoming public exhibition, “Beyond Data-driven Aesthetics” (April–August 2026, MIT Keller Gallery, Cambridge, MA). He received a Diploma (M.Arch.) of Architect Engineer (2014) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is a registered architect in Greece. For more information visit haridis.me/.