Dipl. Ing. for Architecture, Technical University, Graz, Austria; M.Arch., University of Southern California
2004 Recipient of the AGA KHAN AWARD for Architecture for his work on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Professor Kapeller was born in 1956 in Graz, Austria. He graduated from the Technical University in Graz as Dipl. Ing. for Architecture in 1983 and got his master’s degree in architecture at the USC in 1986. He has received numerous awards and prizes at architectural competitions: Friedrich Zotter Gedaechtnispreis in 1978; Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition honorable mention in 1987; honorable mention at the international competition for the Arboretum at the University of California, Davis in 1988; first prize in the international design competitions for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt in 1989; the Art Museum in Lillehammer, Norway in 1990; the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin Germany in 1996; and the new Oslo Opera House, Oslo Norway in 2000. He was partner at SNOHETTA and was the project architect/partner in charge for the New Library of Alexandria from 1990 to 2001. In 2002, after he relocated to Los Angeles, he founded CK-Architecture and was one of seven finalists at the international design competition in Aomori, Japan among 890 participants. In 2003 he won a meritorious award at the Malama Learning Center competition in Hawaii in collaboration with Thomas Spiegelhalter and Mitchell De Jarnett and in 2005 he won an honorable mention at the international design competition URBAN HABITATS in Charlotteville, Virginia and completed the PHARMAKA art gallery. In 2006, Christoph Kapeller completed the Robert H. Timme Graduate Research Center, an addition to the School of Architecture at USC as Design Architect.
Professor Kapeller is a licensed architect in the State of California and the European Union. In his practice he specializes in the application of latest building technology to create poetic, liveable and sustainable design solutions.
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SELECTED PROJECTS:
Stockholm City Library Competition
National Library of the Czech Republic Competition
Aomori Northern Housing Complex Competition
Robert H. Timme Graduate Research Center
Seoul Performing Arts Center Competition