Michail Vlasopoulos is a Doctor of Philosophy in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago ᾽21, where he studied—under the supervision of Lorraine Daston and Jean-Luc Marion—the conceptual transformations of matter from the Late Renaissance to the Early Modern era (1547-1713). He graduated from the National Technical School of Architecture (NTUAthens ᾽08 cum laude) and, as a recipient of the Eugenides Foundation scholarship, he completed the Master᾽s in Design Studies, History and Philosophy of Design at Harvard University (MDes ᾽12 summa cum laude) writing on the Spinozist Foundations of Goethean Morphology, as supervised by Sanford Kwinter. He worked for Bruce Mau as a research designer at the Massive Change Network and taught the Great Books (Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Spinoza, Shelley) at the Graham School of Continuing Liberal Studies, UChicago. He won the 1st Prize in the 26th international architectural competition SPACE prize ᾽07 and was awarded the Gerald M. McCue ᾽12 medal for highest academic achievement by Harvard GSD. His essays have been published in major journals such as: MIT Thresholds, Harvard GSD, Rice University PLAT, McGill University ARC, Space Prize Magazine, APEIRA journal, Docomomo, BHMA ideas, as well as his dedicated column on ABITARE.