Smaro Katsangelou

Smaro Katsangelou is a practicing architect and engineer from Greece. She holds a Master of Science in Preservation, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments (AUTh) and is currently pursuing a PhD with a focus on architecture and artificial intelligence at the Center for Connected Autonomy and AI at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Her practice focuses on exhibition and museum design as well as historic building and monument restoration. She has participated in research projects on History of Architecture, Urbanism, New technologies and Visual Arts for more than 7 years. Smaro’s work focuses on the intersection of new technologies and architectural heritage, researching ways to bridge collective human past with the digital heterotopia. She has published and presented her research in multiple countries, from the Netherlands (TU Delft) to Singapore (SUTD) to the US (GeorgiaTech). Smaro has been teaching 2nd, 3rd and 4th year Design at Florida Atlantic University’s Department of Architecture as well as Modern History & Theory of Architecture for the past four years. She has organized and participated in multiple lectures, panels and conferences on AI and Architecture.