Prof. Kostas Terzidis
Tongji University
College of Design & Innovation
Shanghai, China

Kostas Terzidis is a professor at the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University and the founder of the 尚想实验室.  Previously, he was an associate professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2003-2011) and assistant professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (1995-2003).   He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree from Ohio State University, and an engineering diploma from Aristotle University.  His areas of concentration are language, algorithmic design, and AI.  He is author of numerous academic papers and the sole author of four academic books: Permutation Design (Routledge: 2014), Algorithms for Visual Design (Wiley: 2009), Algorithmic Architecture (Architectural Press: 2006), and Expressive Form (Spon:2003).  Since 2008, he is the organizer of numerous Critical Digital Conferences.  In 2010 he was awarded the ACADIA award for innovative research in digital design.  Between 2011-2017 he launched and ran a startup company called Organic Parking, Inc. that dealt with parking optimization using smart phones. In 2019 he was selected as High-End Foreign Expert by State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China.

Selected publications

[1] Terzidis K, Fabrocini F, Lee H, Unintentional intentionality: Art and design in the age of artificial intelligence, AI & Society, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01378-8 )

[2] Fabrocini F, Terzidis, K, Re-framing AI: An AI Product Designer Perspective, Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 25:3 pp. 407–434, 2021 (DOI: 10.5840/techne2021127151)

[3] Terzidis K, Permutation Design: Buildings, Texts, and Contexts, London: Routledge, 2014, 161pp. ISBN 978-0-415-64450-1

[4] Terzidis K, Algorithms for Visual Design, New York: Wiley, 2009, 384pp. ISBN 978-0-470-37548-8

[5] Terzidis K, Algorithmic Architecture, Oxford: Architectural Press/Elsevier, 2006, 200 pp., 50 ill. ISBN: 0750667257 (also translated in Japanese)

[6] Terzidis K, Expressive Form: A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design, Spon Press- Routledge, 2003, 110 pp., 50 ill. ISBN: 0415317436