Thomas Doxiadis

Thomas Doxiadis, ASLA, is an internationally recognized Greek architect and landscape architect.  Born in Athens (1970), Thomas Doxiadis received his B.A. (1992), Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University (1998).  He was teaching assistant at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has received academic awards such as the Harvard College Scholarship, Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, Rudolf Arnheim Prize, and the Penny White Award.  He returned to Greece in 1999, where he was Section Manager of the Athens Olympics Organizing Committee (1999-2003), responsible for landscape and Look of the City. Concurrently he was Advisor to the Organization for the Planning of Athens (1999-2001).  He has taught in the university (Adjunct Lecturer, University of Patras, 2003-2007, and others).  He is currently Chair of the Natural Environment council of the Greek Society for Natural and Cultural Preservation.  Thomas has written about and participated in conferences focusing on ecology, landscape, and the city.

 

In 1999 he founded the architecture/landscape practice doxiadis+, who are devoted to design excellence and work to jointly satisfy the needs of people and the environment. The practice consists of architects and landscape architects, and has extensive international collaborations. Projects are often research-driven, and include design of developments, parks, marinas, residencies, resorts, urban interventions, landscape restoration, and policy.  The practice has received awards such as the 2010 Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Awards (Commendation), the first prize for the urban space in front of the new Acropolis Museum, the 2012 best private plots international competition (Honorable Mention) and the 2007 competition for the regeneration of the Square of Heroes in Eleusis (1st Mention - Acquisition).