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2025 Design Awards Jury
A distinguished body of experts from the architectural community will convene in Athens, Greece this spring to evaluate work submitted by architects in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for the 2025 AIA Florida Design Awards.
AIA Florida is pleased to announce the 2025 AIA Florida Design Awards Jury.
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Nicholas Anastasopoulos, Ph. D.
Anastasopoulos is an associate professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) School of Architecture. His research interests include sustainability, urban condition, communities and ecology. He earned his BA from NTUA, a Master of Architecture from Yale University and Ph.D.on Environmental Management, Sustainability and Alternative Social and Living Formations from NTUA. Anastasopoulos’ postdoctoral research centered on issues of sustainability and the impact of urban environments and was conducted in Quito, Ecuador.
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Leonidas Koutsoumpos, Ph.D.
Koutsoumpos is associate professor of Theory of Architectural Design at NTUA, teaching and researching ways of bridging the gap between practices and theories of the design process. He is a registered architect, actively designing projects of various domestic scales and architectural competitions of public buildings. He has also been engaged in the restoration of heritage buildings and enhancement of archaeological sites.
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Stratis Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos is founder and principal of ERGO 7 in Athens. He has designed and supervised the construction of numerous large scale projects. He views architecture as the composition of space and light through materials and details, creating ‘spaces’ that can hold ‘life’ with its multiple experiences and contradictions. Papadopoulos is a graduate of NTUA and earned his Masters of Architecture from Pratt Institute.
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Sophia Paraskevopoulou
Paraskevopoulou graduated NTUA and has a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Her scope covers diversified project types and scales, in Greece and worldwide. She was lead Architect at the office of Alexandros Tombazis and Associate Architects for the design of the Sanctuary of Fatima, Church of the Most Holy Trinity and assembly hall for 9000 pilgrims, Fatima, Portugal, an international competition which won first prize. Sustainability and bioclimatic design are key elements in her design philosophy.
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Chrysostomos Theodoropoulos
Theodoropoulos is a renowned researcher and professor of architecture at NTUA with published books and articles on architectural theory and practice including recent “Adaptive Reuse: Theoretical Glossary and Design Labs” (STH Press, 2024). He is also the Director of SOUTH architecture, an Athens based design studio with numerous mid-scale projects in Europe and USA. His practice has been awarded the 1st DOMES Prize for the Best Building by a Young Architect (2012), and his built projects have been widely published in Greece, Germany, USA and Australia.
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