Experience

Zaha Hadid Architects

• United Kingdom
• Architecture and Planning
• 700 & Above Employee

• Design Director

  • Feb 1998 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom

• Associate Director

  • Feb 1998 - Jul 2019

  Christos is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects. He has worked with the firm since February 1998 and as Design Director he has lead numerous projects and winning competitions, including most notably the Sterling Prize nominee, the Phaeno Science Center Wolfsburg, completed in November 2005. The Phaeno was nominated by the Guardian Newspaper as one of the 50 best buildings of the 20th century, together with the Sidney Opera House, the Fallingwater the TWA terminal and others.… Show more Christos is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects. He has worked with the firm since February 1998 and as Design Director he has lead numerous projects and winning competitions, including most notably the Sterling Prize nominee, the Phaeno Science Center Wolfsburg, completed in November 2005. The Phaeno was nominated by the Guardian Newspaper as one of the 50 best buildings of the 20th century, together with the Sidney Opera House, the Fallingwater the TWA terminal and others. Recently completed the Dominion Tower for Peresvet Group in Moscow, to high public acclaim which was nominated as one of Moscow's 5 most beautiful buildings. And Best Office Atrium winner 2016, by Next Office. Currently, Christos is in charge of the Opus for OMNIYAT Properties a unique mixed use project, housing a boutique hotel for Meliá group. Recently, has successfully directed the competition design of an innovative Technopark Scheme for Russia's Sberbank, that features trend setting new logics to the organization of office culture.



DIA (Bauhaus) School of Architecture

• Guest DAAD Professor

  • Sep 2008 - Jul 2012

  Founded studio X a digital design , algorithmic experimentation laboratory http://diastudiox.net/?page_id=205



Architectural Association

• Course Tutor

  • Sep 2006 - 2009

  Taught Parametric urbanism 2&3 studios with Patrik Schumacher, Theo Spyropoulos, Yusuke Obuchi, Tom Verebes, Shajay Bhooshan, Alisa Andrasek and Robert Stuart-Smith