Shota Tsikoliya

Doc. MgA. Shota Tsikoliya, Ph.D, M.Sc. (*1991) obtained his Master of Science degree from the University of Stuttgart and Master of Arts degree from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he currently works as an associate professor and leads the Studio Architecture III. Together with his colleagues from COLLARCH he leads an architectural design studio in ARCHIP. He leads and co‑organizes different workshops related to innovative technologies in architecture. Shota successfully defended his PhD thesis at AAAD in Prague with his dissertation: Computational Methods in Contemporary Architectural Practice: Emergent Architecture and later habilitated with a thesis on Emergent and Discrete Architecture. Between 2014-2015 he studied and worked at the Institute of Computational Design, University of Stuttgart, where he participated on realization of ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014-2015. He has gained rich work experience on award‑winning projects at architectural offices in Prague and Berlin.