Porphyrios Associates


BIOGRAPHY OF DR. D. PORPHYRIOS, M.A., M.ARCH., PH.D. (PRINCETON)

Demetri Porphyrios has an international reputation as an architect and theorist.
He is the principal of Porphyrios Associates, he has built in England, Europe,
the Middle East and America and he has received many awards and honorary degrees
for excellence in architectural and urban design.  

He was educated at Princeton University where he received his Master of
Architecture and Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Architecture. He holds an
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and he has been Thomas
Jefferson Professor at the University of Virginia and Davenport and Bishop
Professor at Yale University.  He has taught at the Architectural Association,
the Polytechnic of Central London and the Royal College of Art.  

He is the recipient of the Driehaus International Prize in Architecture and the
Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition. He is a member of
the Council of the Greek Archaeological Committee (U.K.), trustee of the Saint
Catherine Foundation, archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, member of Europa
Nostra and member of the Society of Architectural Historians. He is an appointed
member of CABE Design Review Committee (Commission for Architecture & the Built
Environment; a statutory body sponsored by the Department of Culture, Media and
Sport and funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).

Internationally known projects include: the Quadrangle for Magdalen College in
Oxford University; the New Courts for Selwyn College in the University of
Cambridge; the Belvedere Village in Ascot; the Brindleyplace Office Buildings in
Birmingham; the Interamerican Office Building in Athens; the Duncan Galleries in
Nebraska; and the town of Pitiousa in Spetses.  Current projects include:
Whitman College for Princeton University, New Jersey; the Ivy Club at Princeton;
the Kennedy-Allee/Rocco Forte Leading Hotel of the World in Frankfurt; the
library at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai; the Alys Beach Waterfront in
Florida; and the Harbour and Marina Village in Turks & Caicos. Alongside his
collegiate, commercial and residential design work, he continues his interest in
urban design as seen in the master plans for the town of Trowbridge in England,
Elia Valley in Kefalonia and currently with the King's Cross Central development
in London.
 
His articles have appeared in many international architectural periodicals.  His
publications include Sources of Modern Eclecticism; On the Methodology of
Architectural History; Classicism is not a Style; Building and Rational
Architecture; Classical Architecture; and monograph Demetri Porphyrios: Selected
Buildings and Writings and Porphyrios Associates: Recent Work.