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Christian Grou is a Hamburg-based trans-disciplinary media architect working across boundaries of design. Main areas include architecture and urbanism, but also experimental moving image, screen based design and interactive installations.
Christian gained an MA in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Stuttgart. He has taught at schools such as the London School of Economics, the Architectural Association in London and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is a founding partner of the collective ‘Neutral’, a production studio which he co-directed between 1998 and 2019.
Christian has engaged in collaborations with creators such as architects Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, David Adjaye, fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and choreographer Sasha Waltz on film, animation and interactive projects. Commercial projects include design and art direction for various large global corporations including Lufthansa and Panasonic.
Christian's design work has been exhibited internationally, at venues including the V&A, Tate Modern and Design Museum in London; the Guggenheim Museum and MoMA in New York and frequently as part of the Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Represented by and working in close collaboration with the London based design and production collective Neutral.

Born in Bucharest, Romania
German / Romanian
BA Architecture, Universität Stuttgart 1994
MA Architecture and Urbanism, Universität Stuttgart 1998
Director of Neutral,
a multidisciplinary design studio
1999–
Independent media architect in Hamburg since 2019

Past exhibitions2010 · Victoria & Albert Museum, London, ‘Late Night at the V&A’2009 · HDLU, Zagreb, ‘Dogma’2008 · Museum of Modern Art, New York, ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’2007 · Tate Modern, London, ‘Global Cities’2006 · Biennale di Architettura, Venice, ‘Cities, Architecture and Society’2006 · Guggenheim Museum, New York, ‘Zaha Hadid’2006 · Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Lisbon, ‘My World’2006 · Norsk design- og arkitektursenter, Oslo, ‘My World’2006 · Design Museum, London, ‘My World’2005 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht, ‘Place to Passage’2004 · Centre George Pompidou, Paris, ‘Place to Passage’2004 · Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, ‘Place to Passage’2004 · Proje 4 L Museum, Istanbul, ‘Place to Passage’2003 · Spazio Etoile, Rome, ‘Place to Passage’2003 · The Truman Brewery, London, ‘Place to Passage’2000 · Kiasma, Helsinki, ‘Cities on the Move’2000 · 291 Gallery, London, ‘Seek 01’2000 · Institute of Contemporary Art, London ‘Zaha Hadid at the ICA’1999 · Hayward Gallery, London, ‘Cities on the Move'
Teaching, lecturesAlanus Hochschule für Kunst und GesellschaftUniversity of Ljubljana, Faculty of ArchitectureTechnical University of InnsbruckSouthern California Institute of Architecture, Los AngelesLondon School of Economics / Cities ProgrammeUniversity of BathArchitectural Association, LondonByam Shaw School of Art, LondonTokyo University Faculty of ArchitectureNorsk design- og arkitektursenter, OsloKunstakademie, Stuttgart

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