Dr Kostas Grigoriadis
Lecturer in Architecture
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Faculty of the Built Environment
- Joined UCL
- 1st Dec 2015
Research summary
Teaching summary
Kostas Grigoriadis has taught a Design Unit in the Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1) programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture for three years from 2016 to 2019. He also taught in Research Cluster 14 in the Postgraduate Urban Design MArch programme that is part of the Bartlett Prospective (B-Pro), for two years from 2015 to 2017. Since 2017 he has been running Research Cluster 8 in the Architectural Design MArch programme. The cluster's main research focus is on multi-material design and the wider implications that the use of multi-materials will have on architecture and building construction. More specifically, the cluster explores new procedures of designing and building with material gradients, aiming to rethink component-based assembly and the standard practice of twentieth century mechanical connnectivity. The first two cycles of this research agenda were targeted towards the rethinking of the building envelope, namely of curtain walling and its part based build-up. The corresponding design research projects investigated the use of robotic fabrication for the insitu 3D printing of building facades, and more importantly the fusion of metal and glass to generate component-less, materially continuous envelopes. Currently, the cluster is researching into the multi-material design of large span structures for transit hubs in London. In 2019-20 this was targeted to the Euston Station site and in 2020-21 to the main concourse roof in King's Cross Station. In addition to the above, Grigoriadis coordinated the Design Technology II module in the Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1) programme for one year, and is currently the Year 1 Technology Module coordinator in the Architecture MSci (ARB Part 1 & 2) programme. He has also been supervising thesis students in Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2). Outside UCL, Kostas has been teaching in the Undergraduate School at the Architectural Association School of Architecture since 2010, held a Visiting Lectureship in Architecture at the Royal College of Art from 2012 to 2015, and has been an External Examiner at the MA in Architecture and Urbanism programme at the University of East London from 2015 to 2018.
Education
- Royal College of Art
- Doctorate, PhD in Architecture by Project | 2018
- Architectural Association School of Architecture
- Masters, Masters in Architecture and Urbanism | 2009
- University College London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), Diploma in Architecture (RIBA Part 2) | 2005
- London Metropolitan University
- First Degree, BA (Hons) in Architecture (RIBA Part 1) | 2002
Biography
Dr Kostas Grigoriadis studied architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, followed by a Master's degree in
Architecture and Urbanism at the Architectural Association’s Design
Research Laboratory (DRL). He has worked for Foster + Partners and Populous in
London and held a Visiting Lectureship at the Royal College of Art
where he also completed a PhD in Architecture by Project (in June 2017)
that focused on multi-material design methodologies. In 2020 he completed Part I of the
MA in Philosophy course at the Open University. His practice Continuum
Design & Architecture provides building design services, and has currently completed the
construction of a tourist centre and small-scale masterplan in Anhui,
China.
Continuum has previously won Spiretec competition for the design and
construction of 62,000 square metre World Trade Centre Noida in Delhi,
India. Grigoriadis is currently a
Lecturer in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and
has been teaching at the Architectural Association's Undergraduate
School since 2010. He has edited the book Mixed Matters: A Multi-Material Design Compendium,
published in June 2016 by Jovis Verlag and was awarded the Ivan
Petrovic Prize in eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) 2014, and the Arup Prize for Emerging Talent in
Architecture—Special Mention at the Royal Academy’s 2016 Summer
Exhibition. In 2018 he won the RIBA President’s Award for Design and
Technical Research and in 2019 he was awarded the inaugural Google R+D
in the Built Environment Fellowship.