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Georgios Kontominas

Georgios Kontominas

San Francisco, CA, US

 
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About 

Georgios Kontominas (Athens, 1990) is a Senior Architectural Designer (10 yoe) with a demonstrated history of working in the architecture & planning industry, currently employed at WRNS Studio in San Francisco.

In the past, he has collaborated with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in San Francisco and SPARCH Sakellaridou/Papanikolaou Architects in Thessaloniki, Greece working on a wide range of projects and scales.

Georgios holds a Diploma in Architectural Engineering (Dipl-ing) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece, graduating Summa Cum Laude and as a Valedictorian. He earned his second Master's from UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, with Distinction, receiving merit-based scholarships by the department and being a Gerondelis Foundation Scholar and a Stavros Niarchos award recipient. While at UC Berkeley he also worked as a Graduate Student Researcher concentrating on exploring Additive Manufacturing, Bio-inspired Design and Digital Fabrication.

His work has been exhibited in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, UK, China, USA, and, has been nominated for prestigious awards, including the EU Mies van der Rohe Award (2024 Nominee with SPARCH Architects - American Elementary School of Thessaloniki | "Anatolia").

Georgios is a registered architect in Greece and the UK

Employment 

WRNS Studio, San Francisco, CA, US, Senior Architectural Designer

Oct 2018 - current
 

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, CA, US, Junior Architectural Professional

Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
 

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, US, Graduate Student Researcher

Aug 2016 - May 2017
 

Sparch || Rena Sakellaridou | Morpho Papanikolaou, Thessaloníki, GR, Junior Architect

Apr 2014 - Aug 2016
 

Education 

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, US, MArch, Architecture

Aug 2016 - May 2017
 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, GR, Masters, Architectural Engineering

Oct 2008 - Apr 2015
 

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, GR, BArch, Architectural Engineering

Oct 2008 - Apr 2015
 

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