Patrik Schumacher

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects. He is registered with the Architect’s Registration Board and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Patrik studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Southbank University in London. He completed his architectural diploma and received his degree from Stuttgart University in 1990 and also studied philosophy at both Bonn and London Universities. In 1999 he received his doctoral degree Dr. Phil. from the Institute for Cultural Sciences at the University of Klagenfurt.

Since 1992, Patrik has been teaching at architectural schools in Britain, continental Europe and the USA. In 1996 Patrik founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association where he continues to teach as co-director. He is lecturing worldwide and recently held the John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. In 2008 Patrik coined the phrase Parametricism. In 2010 and 2012 he published the two volumes The Autopoiesis of Architecture and recently Parametricism 2.0 – setting architecture’s agenda for the 21st Century with a new emphasis on its societal relevance.