After 25 years helping to shape one of the world’s most respected architecture practices as Partner and Design Director at David Chipperfield Architects — whose founder received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2023 — Christoph Felger stepped away in 2024, driven by the conviction that architectural practice must be rethought as a truly collective undertaking. This belief lies at the heart of A KIND OF SPACE — Office for Architecture, Research and Design, the interdisciplinary practice he founded in Berlin.

With A KIND OF SPACE, Christoph Felger works across scales and contexts on spatial responses to contemporary ways of living. Central to the practice is a conscious engagement with the existing fabric, the careful development of what is already there, and reuse and transformation as fundamental design strategies. Materials are approached with attentiveness and curiosity, taking their origin, inherent limits and internal logic seriously. Local knowledge and craft traditions inform the work, alongside an acceptance of imperfection as part of human experience and as a quiet expression of beauty.

From 1999 to 2024, Christoph Felger worked with David Chipperfield Architects in London and Berlin, playing a key role in establishing the Berlin office and shaping the development of numerous projects in Germany and internationally. As author and co-author, he was involved across all phases of design and delivery. His work from this period includes the Nobel Centre in Stockholm, conceived to be built entirely from reused materials; Morland Mixité Capitale in Paris, the transformation of a late-1950s administrative building into a mixed-use urban quarter with social and affordable housing; the Amorepacific headquarters in Seoul, the world’s first courtyard high-rise and one of Asia’s most sustainable buildings; and the extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich, among the first cultural buildings in Switzerland to meet the standards of the 2000 Watt Society. His broader body of work spans cultural buildings, large-scale transformation projects, adaptive reuse, sustainable hybrid buildings and complex urban masterplans.

Before studying architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Christoph Felger trained as a cabinet maker in the Black Forest and studied product and furniture design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He later taught at the Architectural Association, served as an external examiner at London Metropolitan University, and regularly works as a guest lecturer, critic and competition juror. In addition, he advises municipalities in Germany and abroad on questions of urban development, planning and design and is a member of the design advisory board of the City of Pforzheim.