Programme Course Tutor – Pierandrea Angius

Pierandrea Angius is currently working for Zaha Hadid Architects. He holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Building Technology from the Politecnico of Milan and an MArch in Architecture and Urban- ism from the AA. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Visiting Design Studio. 

Programme Course Tutor – Apostolos Despotidis

Apostolos Despotidis is currently working for Fosters + Partners and has previously worked for Minimaforms London Ltd. where he has been involved in projects of various scales from urban planning to installation design. He has MArch from the AADRL and an Architect/ Engineer degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a registered architect in Greece since 2010. 

Programme Course Tutor – Mostafa El-Sayed

Mostafa El-Sayed is the co-founder of Automata Technologies and previously worked as a member of the Computation and Design group at Zaha Hadid Architects. He is a graduate of the AA and the American University of Sharjah. He has taught and presented work at various events, workshops and institutions both in London and internationally. 

Programme Course Tutor – Klaus Platzgummer

Klaus Platzgummer studied architecture at ETH Zürich and holds a Master’s in History and Critical Thinking in Architecture from the AA. He currently co-teaches the synthesis seminars in the AA DRL program and serves as a teaching assistant for History and Theory Studies at the AA Undergraduate School. 

Programme Course Tutor – Alicia Nahmad Vazquez

Alicia Nahmad Vazquez is a PhD Fellow at the Welsh School of Architecture, University of Cardiff. She previously worked with the Parametric design group at Populous, London for and has accumulated design and construction experience in various practises including Zaha Hadid Architects and Grupo Inmobiliario Altiva, Mexico. Her research focus includes the mediation between digital design and traditional material crafts and the incorporation of human-robot interactions on the construction site. 

Programme Course Tutor –  Alexandra Vougia

Alexandra Vougia studied architecture in Thessaloniki, Greece and holds an MS in Advanced Architectural Design from GSAPP, Columbia University. She was awarded an MPhil from the AA School in 2016. She has worked as an architect in New York and Athens and has taught at the AA School and the University of Westminster. 

Programme Course Tutor –  Evangelia Magnisali

Eva Magnisali is currently working at Bryden Wood as Head of Robotics. Previously, she coordinated the Architectural Robotics Lab of the University of Westminster, leading research projects that explored emerging techniques around digital manufacturing and robotics. Eva has been awarded an MArch in Architectural Engineering in Greece and an MArch in Architecture and Urbanism at the Design Research Laboratory of the Architectural Association. She is actively involved in academia, teaching at the AADRL and the University of Westminster, and she has lectured and presented her work internationally.

Programme Course Tutor – Zaynab Dena Ziari Shalmani 

Dena Ziari completed her postgraduate studies in History and Theory of Architecture at the AA. She is an academic and historian of Architecture and Urbanism, where she has been part of the faculty teaching history of architecture since 2010, she is also visiting lecturer at the University of Navarra and previously at the Aarhus School of Architecture. Her research interests focus on the intersection of psychiatry and urbanism with the development and growth of the city from the late 19th Century; and the treatment, use, and contemporary misuse of history, culture and identity reflected in the architectural heritage of modern Iran. She also writes for architects about their architecture.