Yannis Aesopos is principal of Yannis Aesopos Architecture, Athens. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (Diploma of Architecture, 1989) and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (Master in Architecture, 1991). He is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture, University of Patras, Greece.

Aesopos was a member of Bernard Tschumi Architects in New York from 1992 to 1995. In the spring of 2009 he was a Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University working on his research in contemporary post-Olympic urban transformations in Athens. In 1994 he taught as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. He was co-director of the Metapolis review, Athens and co-curator of the exhibition Landscapes of Modernisation: Greek Architecture 1960s and 1990s (Rotterdam, 1999, Barcelona, 1999, Helsinki, 1999, Thessaloniki, 2000, Belgrade, 2000 & 2002, Pescara, 2001, Chania, Crete, 2002, Athens, 2005) and co-editor of the book with the same title (Athens, 1999), co-editor of Landscapes of the Intimate (Athens, 1996) and The Contemporary (Greek) City/Metapolis 2001 (Athens, 2001). His texts have been published in Α10, Archi, Archis, Architecture in Greece, Bauwelt, Design + Art in Greece, Εl Croquis etc. Since 2002 he is an Independent Expert of the Mies van der Rohe Award, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. In 2006 he co-founded the network www.arhens9.net as a think-tank for innovative architectural and urban design proposals on contemporary Athens.

His work has been presented at the 2nd Young Greek Architects Biennale (Athens, 1998), the 7th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale 2000, the exhibition “New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Japan 2002” (Tokyo, 2002, Gent, 2002, Salamanca, 2002, Bordeaux, 2003), the exhibition “Athens-Scape” (RIBA, London 2003), in reviews such as Archi, Archis, Architecture in Greece, Blueprint, Bauwelt, Design + Art in Greece and the publications The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture (London, 2004), Contemporary Greek Architecture (Athens, 2005) and Top Young European Architects (Barcelona, 2005).