Myrsini Mamoli
Lecturer
Myrsini Mamoli
Lecturer
Education
Ph.D. Architecture, Georgia Tech, 2014
M.S. Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Greece, 2007
B.A. Archaeology and History of Art, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2004
Biography
Myrsini Mamoli is an architectural historian, archaeologist, and museologist at Georgia Tech. Her research and teaching are at the intersection of architectural history and computation, employing traditional methodologies as well as algorithmic methods, including generative grammars and generative AI for the analysis and reconstruction of historical architectural remains. Her recent work to develop a machine learning- powered digital network of ancient buildings has been supported by Microsoft and the NEH. Myrsini Mamoli regularly teaches at the GT Study Abroad Program in Greece and Italy and engages in fieldwork, working with students to digitally document and reconstruct architectural remains in archaeological sites in Greece, Italy and Turkey. Her ongoing work is on the history and architectural form of Hellenistic and Roman Libraries is widely recognized, and she is working on the publication of the Architecture of the Pantainos Library in the Classical Agora in Athens (ASCSA).
Keywords
Ancient Architectural history, Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture and Urbanism, Ancient Libraries, Digital archaeology, Digital Heritage, Grammars and Formal Theories of Style
Faculty Award of Merit, Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2014
MIT visiting student fellowship, 2010 – 2012
Fulbright Fellowship for doctorate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006 – 2011
Gerondelis Foundation Fellowship for doctorate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007
Triantafyllou Foundation Fellowship for doctorate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006
Greek State Scholarships Foundation Fellowship for Erasmus Exchange Program, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, 2003
Books
Mamoli M. 2014. Towards a Theory of Reconstructing Ancient Libraries, Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mamoli, M. 2006. Immersion, Interactivity and Agency; a Digital Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Library of Nysa for the Resolution of Interpretative Problems, Masters Thesis, University of the Aegean.
Book Chapters
Mamoli M. 2021. “Shape Grammars as the Decoder of Cultural DNA of Archaeological Artifacts,” Lee JH. (eds) A New Perspective of Cultural DNA. KAIST Research Series. Springer, Singapore, p. 93-109.
Articles in Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings
Mamoli, M. 2020. “A Shape Grammar for the Building-Type Definition of Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries,” Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), Spring 2020, Vol.34, Special Issue 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 191-206.
Mamoli, M. 2019. “Shape Grammars as the Decoder of Cultural DNA of Archaeological Artifacts”, in Lee, Ji-Hyun (ed.),Cultural DNA Workshop 2019: Computational Studies of the Cultural Variation and Heredity, Proceedings of the 3rd Cultural DNA workshop, KAIST, Danjeon, South Korea, June 25, 2019, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, pp. 103-115.
Mamoli, M. 2018. “Shape grammars as a Probabilistic Model for Building Type Definition and Computation of Possible Instances: The Case Study of Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries" in Gero, J.(ed.), Design Computing and Cognition ’18, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Design Computing and Cognition, Politecnico di Milano, Lecco, Italy, 2–4 July 2018, Springer, pp. 499-518.
Mamoli M. 2015. “Library Grammar: A Shape Grammar for the Reconstruction of Fragmentary Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries” in Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, 16-18 September 2015, pp. 463-470.
Mamoli, M. and T. Knight, 2013. "Reconstructing Fragments: Shape Grammars and Archaeological Research." in Earl, G. T. Sly, A. Chrysanthi, P. Murrieta-Flores, C. Papadopoulos, I. Romanowska, and D. Wheatley (eds.), Archaeology in the digital era: papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2021, pp. 888-896