Thanasis is an Associate Professor of History of Art and Cultural Theory, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete. He studied at the National Technical University.  Master of Design Studies, Harvard University, PhD NTUA. PhD N.T.U.A. Adj. assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras, Greece (2000-2005).  Adj. assistant professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras, Greece (2000-2005). Adj. assistant professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2005-2007). He teaches History and Theory of Art and Culture at the School of Architecture, TUC. Collaborated with many reviews (Mute, Archis,…) He was appointed commissioner for the Greek Pavilion (“Athens 2002: Absolut Realism”) at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2002). He was the artistic director for the Photosyngyria exhibition, an international photography event in Thessaloniki, Greece (February 2005) and Visual Arts in Greece 2005 at the Contemporary Art Museum in Thessaloniki. He curated a great number of group shows in several museums in Greece and has published numerous books on Art, Culture, Underground and Countercultural Art and, specifically, Street Art. Recent international publications: Red Utopia: North Korea (author) and On Cultural Influence (ed. Steven rand, Heather Kouris), Surface: Digital Materiality and the New Relation between Depth and Surface, EEAE Transactions on Architectural Education no 48 (ed. N. Patsavos, Y. Zavoleas). His latest books are Not Exactly Art: the over-inflation of the cultural phenomenon (2021, greek language) and I did it first. Copying, reproduction, transformation, and the eclipse of meaning (2026, Greek language)