Born in 1934 in Athens (Greece), Vassilis Sgoutas graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT- South Africa) in 1957 and has his own practice in Athens.

Projects carried out both in Greece and the Middle East include public buildings, industrial architecture, commercial buildings, hospitals, rehabilitation centres, restoration work and landscape architecture.
Works include office buildings for Ciba-Geigy, Siemens and Novartis, industrial plants for Pfizer, Winthrop, Famar, Union Carbide and Boehringer Ingelheim, the Athens Management and Conference Centre, the Alexander Fleming Basic Biological Research Centre, the University of Crete Faculty of Medicine, the EEC Presidency remodelling of Zappeion Palace, the Greek Pavilion at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair, and in collaboration the Athens Concert Hall and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.

He has won numerous awards in competitions including two of thirty ex-aequo prizes awarded by the Ministry of Public Works for the best buildings of the period 1973-1983 and the Ministry of Environment ex-aequo award for innovative housing.

He has played an active part in the various activities of the Union as a member of the UIA Council between 1985 and 1990, then Vice President for Region II from 1990 to 1993 and Secretary General from 1993 to 1999, and President from 1999 to 2002.

He was President of the Greek Section of the UIA from 1981 to 1993 and has been a representative Council Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) since 1984.

He is actively involved in matters related to the environment and the disabled. A member of the EEC Helios Committee for the Handicapped (1989-1993); member of Experts Committee for the "European Manual for an Accessible Built Environment" (1990) and "European Concept for Access" (1995); Board member of the Athens Forest Association and the Greek Spastics Society.