Christoph a. Kumpusch
Christoph a. Kumpusch is a New York City-based architect and the Head of Forward-slash ( / ) Architektur and the Co-Founder of the Mutating-Cities Institute. He teaches design studios and seminars in the Architecture and Real Estate programs at Columbia GSAPP, where he also directs the Extraction Laboratory.
Kumpusch is the director of Forward-slash, a multidisciplinary practice founded in 2008, and the head of Back-slash, the experimental arm of Forward-slash, investigating technology, material and socio-spatial effects on humanity and more-than-human lives and matter, form and tectonics. It grounds its work in a concentrated research program focused on details, architectural and otherwise, and the spawning of new built and imaginaries - from the smallest parts outward. A theoretical project runs parallel to this work, identifying historical and cultural contexts triggered by details and societal collectiveness. The office is both a spatial and performance outfit, producing essays, books, buildings, exhibitions, installations, podcasts, performances, films, and grows environments.
EDUCATION
University of Applied Arts
Vienna, Austria
Berlage Institute
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
New York, United States
JURY
Franz Graf
Boris Groys
Zvi Hecker
Egidio Marzona
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
GARAGE EXCHANGE
Garage Exchange: Christoph a. Kumpusch of Forward-slash (/) Architektur with Youmna Chlala
