SO–IL is an idea-driven design office that brings together extensive experience from the fields of architecture, academia, and the arts. A creative catalyst involved in all scales and stages of the architectural process SO–IL approaches projects with an intellectual and artistic rigor fueled by a strong commitment to realizing ideas in the world. Material and immaterial concepts aim in producing a heightened awareness of place, to reinvigorate the rich experience of space.
The work has received numerous awards, including the MoMAPS1 Young Architects Program, the AIA Young Practices Award and the Emerging Voices award by the Architectural League and has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism, Studio-X in Beijing, Kunsthal KAdE in The Netherlands and the Benaki Museum in Greece.
Ilias Papageorgiou is a Greek architect and a partner at New York based design firm SO – IL. He studied at Aristotle University and Harvard University.