Alexander Tzonis

Alexander Tzonis is professor at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at the University of Technology Delft where he was Director of Design Knowledge Systems, a multi-disciplinary research centre on Architectural Cognition.
Among his publications are: The Shape of Community (Penguin, 1972) with Serge Chermayeff and Towards a Non-oppressive Environment (MIT Press, 1972). Classical Architecture (MIT Press, 1986), The Roots of Modern Architecture (SUN, 1984; second edition, 1990), Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization, Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World, Routledge, London, 2011, all co-authored with Liane Lefaivre.
He has contributed over three hundred articles on architectural theory, history and design methods.