Oct 7th 2015

Cloud Talk Video: Patrik Schumacher

Patrik Schumacher, Director and Senior Designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, delivered a Cloud Talk on Free Market Urban Order on Wed., Oct. 7 @ 2:00 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall.

Patrik has been with Zaha Hadid Architects since 1988. He is a company director and Senior Designer, involved alongside Zaha Hadid herself in all projects undertaken at the practice. He maintains an active role in the development throughout the design phases.

Patrik studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Southbank University in London. He completed his architectural diploma and received his degree Dipl Ing from Stuttgart University in 1990. He also studied philosophy at Bonn and London Universities. In 1999, he received his PhD at the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt.

Patrik has been teaching at various architectural schools in Britain, Continental Europe and the USA since 1992 and a co-director of the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association School of Architecture since 1996. He has co-taught a series of post-graduate option studios with Zaha Hadid at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Currently he is tenured Professor at Innsbruck University and his contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture is also evident in his published works.

His completed projects include the MAXXI Centre of Contemporary Art and Architecture, Rome, which won the Stirling prize in 2010 and one of the practice’s first completed constructions, the Vitra Fire Station (1992). He is currently involved in several master plan projects, including Kartal Pendik in Istanbul and Singapore One North.