Kristof Crolla

C001689

Belgium / Architecture Design

Kristof Crolla 高仕棠 is a licensed architect who combines his architectural practice “Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design Ltd.” (LEAD) with his position as Assistant Professor in Computational Design at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Architecture (CUHK).

After graduating Magna Cum Laude as Civil Architectural Engineer at Ghent University in 2003, he practiced in Belgium at Bureau Buildings & Techniques and independently designed and built his first project, House for an Artist. He moved to London in 2005 to attend the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London (AA)’s Master of Architecture programme Design Research Laboratory (DRL), from where his student work was exhibited at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Following this he worked for several years as Lead Architect for the Pritzker prize winning Zaha Hadid Architects, while teaching in parallel at the AA and other institutions worldwide. He is the founder of the International Workshop Series (IWS) which organise workshops worldwide exploring digital design and fabrication in architecture, and has been invited as a jury critic, lecturer, and tutor in numerous institutions throughout Europe, Asia, Chile and South Africa.

Kristof Crolla is currently based in Hong Kong where his practice received numerous design awards and accolades. He is best known for the projects Golden Moon and ZCB Bamboo Pavilion for which he a.o. received the ‘Oscar of Architecture’ World Architecture Festival Small Project of the Year 2016 award.

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