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Ilias Papageorgiou is a Greek architect and founder of PILA. He brings extensive experience from Europe and America, having led the design and realization of high profile cultural, commercial, and residential projects around the world. Prior to founding PILA, Ilias was a partner at SO-IL in New York.

Ilias’s work has been internationally recognized, having been awarded as a Curbed Groundbreaker, Architects under 50, Domes International Review of Architecture Awards, and the Young Greek Architects Awards. His work has been widely published and exhibited in institutions such as the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York, and the Benaki Museum in Athens.

Ilias studied architecture at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation. In addition to his practice is a Visiting Professor at the University of Patras, and before that, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning in New York. He co-authored solid objectives: order, edge, aura, published by Lars Muller, and was an Ideas City Fellow, a platform for urbanism organized by the New Museum.

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