Christoph Felger is the founder of the newly established office A KIND OF SPACE in Berlin.

A KIND OF SPACE is a practice for architecture, research and design that is no longer just a place for trained architects, but an interdisciplinary creative platform that brings together different disciplines. With the combined skills, experience and cultures, it challenges the current conditions of the built environment. It aims to focus on the reuse and transformation of existing buildings and the up-cycling of existing materials and structural elements. By concentrating on reducing the material palette to locally available – and preferably used – materials, it follows the principles of economy of means, cradle to cradle, design for deconstruction and carbon budgets.

Before setting up his own practice in the second half of 2024, Christoph was a long-standing partner and design director at David Chipperfield Architects in London and Berlin (1999-2024). There he contributed substantially to the establishment of an internationally renowned architectural practice, whose founder and namesake was honoured with the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his life’s work in 2023.

Christoph has been responsible for many major projects in Europe and beyond, including in Europe, the extension to the Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland, the Nobel Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, the Morland Mixité Capital (the conversion of a former 1950s administration building into a mixed-use urban district) in Paris, France and, in Asia, the Amorepacific Headquarters (a 220,000 square metre office, cultural and retail development) in Seoul, South Korea.

Leaving David Chipperfield Architects after such a long collaboration, at the height of the practice’s success and just one year after it was awarded the Pritzker Prize, was motivated by a desire for greater freedom. This decision allows Christoph to focus on exploring and developing his own architectural approach and addressing critical issues in the profession, free from the responsibilities of running a large international star practice.

Christoph has taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he also studied architecture. Prior to studying architecture, he trained as a product and furniture designer at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design in London and as a cabinet maker in the Black Forest in southern Germany. He has also been an external examiner for the Faculty of Architecture at London Metropolitan University and is a frequent lecturer on architectural topics, guest critic and competition juror internationally. In Germany he also advises city councils on planning and design issues.