Patrik Schumacher, Partner, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK

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A partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and founding director at the AA Design Research Lab, Patrik Schumacher joined Zaha Hadid in 1988.
Patrik Schumacher studied philosophy and architecture in Bonn, London and Stuttgart, where he received his Diploma in architecture in 1990. In 1999 he completed his PHD at the Institute for Cultural Science, Klagenfurt University. Patrik Schumacher has been teaching at various architectural schools in Britain, Continental Europe and the USA since 1992.

He has co-taught a series of post-graduate studios with Zaha Hadid at Columbia University, at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and at Yale University. In 1996 he founded the "Design Research Laboratory" with Brett Steele, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and continues to serve as one of its co-directors. Since 2004, Patrik Schumacher is also tenured Professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck University. Currently he is a guest professor at the University of applied Arts in Vienna.