Programme Founder – Patrik Schumacher 

Patrik Schumacher is a practicing architect and architectural theorist promoting parametricism. He studied philosophy and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London and received his doctorate in Cultural Science at Klagenfurt University. He is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and as recently been the John Portman Chair at Harvard’s GSD. Patrik Schumacher lectures and publishes globally. His writings are available on www.patrikschumacher.com