Vasilis Bourdakis graduated from the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, in 1987 and went on to do a PhD at the University of Bath (1994), where he taught and worked as a researcher until 1998. Since 1999, he has been working at the University of Thessaly. He is engaged mainly in research work in the field of Virtual Reality, studying interactive environments as a means of communication in architectural design, as a tool for land use and planning design and as an autonomous design interface.
Over the years 1994-1996, he created the world’s first large-scale, architecturally accurate digital model of a city – the city of Bath. He has earned commendations in architectural competitions, to which he has been submitting entries since 1994. He has published more than forty articles in scholarly journals and proceedings of conferences, and there are numerous references to his work in the international literature.