Christoph Kumpusch

Christoph Kumpusch coordinated the Core I Architecture Studios at Columbia GSAPP from 2015 to 2018. He has previously taught at the Cornell University’s AAP, Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, MIT, Ohio State University, Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture and the Department of Humanities and Media Studies, and SCI-Arc. He has been an invited juror at Harvard University, Yale University, USC, The Architectural Association, Bartlett and Greenwich University in London, HKU University of Hongkong, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Marseille and MEAL - Middle East Architecture Lab in Dubai, and he serves as an external examiner at the Architectural Association’s PhD colloquium. 

In 2010 Kumpusch co-founded the Institute of Mutating Cities with Youmna Chlala. In 2012 Kumpusch completed his Ph.D. on “Detail Kultur – If Buildings Had DNA: Case Studies of Mutations” at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst - Wien. Recent projects include an elephant playground and reserve in Patong, Thailand; the headquarters for V-2’s Variability Hub for Humanity&Cultural equity in Hackney, London and a feasibility study for a theater and casino in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Light Pavilion at the Sliced Porosity Block in Chengdu, China, one of several projects spanning a decade of collaboration with Lebbeus Woods, was recently completed. The second of several storefronts for the gender-fluid non-binary fashion brand Verv.London is currently under construction in Hackney/London. This Fall, two exhibitions, one at the MAK-Center in Los Angeles “Salt Works”, and one at the ACFNY in New York “Fluid Details” opened. The construction of an Equity&Ecology Center including an artist- and engineer-in residence- program at the intersection of Austria-Slovenia-Hungary will break ground in August 2020. 

Forward-slash ( / )  was the winner of an international competition to build the first ever hub and theater-space for Performa 15 - a world-renowned venue for performing arts in New York’s TriBeCa. In 2018, the office competed and was shortlisted in the Burning Man Temple competition. This summer Forward-slash’s recently won masterplan competition for an ecology resort in the Himalayas, Nepal, will be implemented.