Christoph Felger ©Marion Schönenberger

After 25 years helping to shape one of the world’s most respected architecture practices as a partner and design director at David Chipperfield Architects — whose founder received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2023 — Christoph stepped away in 2024, driven by a deep conviction that architectural practice must be rethought as a truly collective undertaking rather than a showcase of individual talent. This belief lies at the heart of A KIND OF SPACE, the architectural practice he founded in Berlin that same year together with collaborators from diverse disciplines, experiences and cultures.

From 1999 to 2024 Christoph worked with David Chipperfield Architects in London and Berlin, contributing to numerous significant projects around the world. These include the Nobel Centre in Stockholm, planned to be built entirely from reused materials; the Morland Mixité Capitale in Paris, a transformation of a late-1950s city administration building into a mixed-use quarter with social and affordable housing, a youth hostel, a five-star hotel, a kindergarten, a market, offices, shops, a public swimming pool and artists’ studios; the Amorepacific Headquarter in Seoul, the first courtyard high-rise in the world and one of Asia’s most sustainable buildings; and the extension to the Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland, one of the first cultural buildings in the country to meet the standards of the 2000 Watt Society, a Swiss energy vision aiming to reduce per capita energy use to 2,000 watts — about one third of the current average in industrialised nations.

Before studying architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he later taught first-year students, Christoph trained as a cabinet maker in the Black Forest and studied product and furniture design at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design in London. He has served as an external examiner at the Faculty of Architecture at London Metropolitan University, is regularly invited as a lecturer, guest critic and competition juror, and advises city councils in Germany on planning and design matters.