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Christos joined Zaha Hadid Architects as a Senior Designer in February 1998 and has been a key member in the development of the overall artistic evolution of the Studio, its business development, the office culture and leader of a wide range of build and unbuilt projects and competitions within the practice. He received his architecture degree with Honours as a Fulbright Scholar at the Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NY in 1995. He was registered as an Architect at Technical Chamber Cyprus 1996, a member of the Architects Registration Board in the UK since 2000 and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2014. He received his Graduate Design Diploma in 1998 in Advanced Architectural Design at the Architectural Association, London. Christos taught Parametric Design and Urbanism at the Architectural Association with Patrik Schumacher in London between 2007 and 2010, working on the exploration of digital and parametric techniques for the formation of large urban settlements. He subsequently went on to serve as Guest DAAD Professor in the Dessau Institute of Architecture (HA) at Bauhaus, Dessau, from 2008 to 2012 working on the implementation of digital design strategies for large scale objects with a complex geometry and character, exploring uniqueness, diversity and complexity. He regularly participates in design juries at universities across the UK and Europe, and is a frequent guest lecturer in parametric design, design thinking and the role of Architecture. Christos has been involved in many of the practice’s seminal projects such as the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; the MAXXI: National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome; and the Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi. He coauthored and led the design of the Phaeno Science Centre project in Wolfsburg, Germany, which was shortlisted for the Sterling prize in 2006 and awarded the 2006 RIBA European Award. Christos has served as design and project director for cultural, mixed-use and master-planning projects in the US, Germany and the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Serbia, the Middle East, UAE and Russia. Christos has assisted the team in charge of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon and his recent projects include the Iconic OPUS project in Dubai which extends the practices engagement in both the interior and the exterior architecture, the Dominion Tower in Moscow, which opened in 2015 and the urban development work at Eleftheria Square in Cyprus. Recently he has been engaged in the design of large scale workspace projects such as the Sberbank’s the innovative Technopark Project and large scale development masterplans in Russia and elsewhere.

Christos joined Zaha Hadid Architects as a Senior Designer in February 1998 and has been a key member in the development of the overall artistic evolution of the Studio, its business development, the office culture and leader of a wide range of build and unbuilt projects and competitions within the practice. He received his architecture degree with Honours as a Fulbright Scholar at the Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in Brooklyn, NY in 1995. He was registered as an Architect at Technical Chamber Cyprus 1996, a member of the Architects Registration Board in the UK since 2000 and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2014. He received his Graduate Design Diploma in 1998 in Advanced Architectural Design at the Architectural Association, London. Christos taught Parametric Design and Urbanism at the Architectural Association with Patrik Schumacher in London between 2007…

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