Patrick Schumacher

Background

Patrick Schumacher is the CEO of Zaha Hadid Architects. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988 and played an important role in the growth of Zaha Hadid Architects to one of the strongest architectural and design companies in the world.

Patrick Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics and architecture in Bonn, Stuttgart and London. He received his degree in architecture in 1990.

Since 2003, he has been a partner and co-author of all Zaha Hadid Architects projects. In 2010, Patrick Schumacher received the Stirling Prize of the Royal Institute of British Architects for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture, together with Zaha Hadid, for the MAXXI project (the Italian National Museum of Art and Architecture of the 21st Century in Rome).

Patrick is also an academician of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1996, he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the London Architects Association, where he continues to teach.

In 1999, Patrick completed his PhD at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria).

Patrick Schumacher lectures all over the world and was recently the John Portman Chair of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Over the past 20 years, he has published more than 100 articles in architectural journals and collections.

In 2008, he coined the term "Parametricism" and has since published a series of manifestos promoting parametricism as a new style of the 21st century. In 2010/2012, Patrick Schumacher published his two-volume theoretical work "The Autopoiesis of Architecture".

Patrick Schumacher is widely known as one of the most prominent thinkers in the field of architecture, urbanism and design of our time.