Rensselaer is America’s oldest technological research university, offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology and web science, architecture, management, and the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

The university offers degrees from five schools: Engineering; Science; Architecture; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the Lally School of Management; as well as an interdisciplinary degree in Information Technology and Web Science.

Rensselaer offers more than 145 programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Students are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary programs that allow them to combine scholarly work from several departments or schools. The university provides rigorous, engaging, interactive learning environments and campus-wide opportunities for leadership, collaboration, and creativity.

Driven by talented, dedicated, and forward-thinking faculty, Rensselaer has dramatically expanded the research enterprise by leveraging our existing strengths and focusing on five signature research areas: biotechnology and the life sciences; energy and the environment; computational science and engineering; nanotechnology and advanced materials; and media, arts, science, and technology.

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Alexandros Tsamis is an Architect and Assistant Professor at the school of architecture, RPI. He currently serves as the Graduate Program Director of Built Ecologies MS & PhD and the Associate Director of CASE. He earned his PhD in Architecture, Design and Computation and Master of Science (SMArchS) in Design and Building Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously he served as the post professional graduate program director in Design at Adolfo Ibanez University in Chile, he has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University. 

With a working definition for the Built Environment as the Effective Distribution of Material, Energy and Information in Space for Cultural Affect, Tsamis works at the intersection of Design and the Architectural Sciences. He focuses on next generation composite materials, climate adaptive - cyber physical - energy systems and advanced manufacturing technologies, as they relate to advances in Computation. He investigates issues associated with, Material, Energy and Information ecologies of the built environment at scales that range from that of the object to that of the territory. 

Tsamis' research work has been published widely in peer reviewed Journals and conferences. He has design/technology patents for innovation in materials. His design work has received several awards in international architectural competitions, first prize at the International Architecture Competition "London Architecture Gallery, first prize in the international design competition" Gillette Landmark and in the "Design of Ephemeral Structures" for the Athens Olympics. His design and theoretical work has been published internationally including Architectural Design (AD), the Journal of Architectural Historians, Thresholds, Pidgin, 306090, Architecture in Formation and exhibited widely, including the Museum of Design in Barcelona, the biennale of Venice, the biennale of architecture in Chile, the biennale of architecture in China, RIBA London and the Byzantine Museum of Greece.

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Composite Materials

Manufacturing Technologies for the Built Environment

Climate-Adaptive Energy Systems

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Material and Energy-based Computational Design

Alexandros Tsamis Faculty page

Alexandros Tsamis speaks at RED Talk "Urban Ecotones: Intelligent, Adaptive, Efficient Cities" Sep 28 2018

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CASE website

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The Future of Cities

Assistant Professor, School of Architecture; Graduate Program Director; Associate Director, Center for Architecture, Science, and Ecology (CASE)

2020 has been a year to reevaluate many aspects of how we live and operate in the world, especially in large cities. In fact, the pandemic has challenged the very purpose of cities. But Dr. Alexandros Tsamis, Associate Director of the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has noticed some promising changes in urban planning to come out of pandemic-caused adaptations, as well as some troubling realities to address. He speaks about what issues will impact how cities look and work in the future, including climate change, remote working, and e-commerce. 

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Dr. Alexandros Tsamis on Reinventing City Planning in a Post-Pandemic World

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