Theodore Dounas is a Chartered Architect and Associate Professor in Architecture at Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University. He is founding partner of the multidisciplinary architecture office archIV+.

He has been teaching in architecture schools and colleges in Europe and China for 10 years and has experience with basic and applied research in architectural design. His design and research work has been published internationally and he has received awards for both research and architectural design. His main research deals with analogue and computer generative tools in architectural design, while a recent strand of his inquiry deals with analysis of armed conflict in the urban environment, its effects on people and spaces. His research constantly informs his architectural design practice, outcomes of which have been 60 buildings.

He is a founding member of the Blender Educational board of the Blender Foundation and of the TOSMI project in Europe, involving designers, filmmakers, directors and architects in the use of open source software. His forthcoming book Design with Blender deals with the creation of tools for design inside Blender 3d.