GRAFT

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[L-R] Thomas Willemeit, Gregor Hoheisel, Wolfram Putz, Alejandra Lillo and Lars Krueckeberg

[L-R] Thomas Willemeit, Gregor Hoheisel, Wolfram Putz, Alejandra Lillo and Lars Krueckeberg – © Ricardo Ridecos (rickyridecos.com)

Brief description

What is graft?

The English word ‘graft’ provokes a variety of meanings and multiple readings. In the terminology of botany, grafting is described as the addition of one shoot onto a genetically different host. The positive properties of two genetically different cultures are combined in the new biological hybrid.

GRAFT, established in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit, is as a ‘Label’ for Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Music and the “pursuit of happiness”. With further offices in Berlin and Beijing GRAFT, has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects in multiple disciplines and locations. Alejandra Lillo became Partner for the office in Los Angeles in 2007, Gregor Hoheisel is Partner for the asian market.

With the core of the firm’s enterprises gravitating around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and “grafting” the creative potentials and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in the firm’s expansion into the fields of exhibition design and product design, art installations, academic projects and “events” as well as in the variety of project locations in Germany, China, UAE, Russia, Georgia, in the U.S. and Mexico, to name a few.

Principals

Thomas Willemeit
Lars Krueckeberg
Wolfram Putz
Allejandra Lillo
Gregor Hoheisel

Key projects

2010 - W New York - Downtown, New York, USA
2010 - Boulevard der Stars, Berlin, Deutschland
2009 - Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi
2008 - The Emperor Hotel, Beijing
2007 - Pink Project / Make It Right
2006 - Stack, Las Vegas
2005 - KU 64, Berlin
2005 - Loft Gleimstrasse
2004 - Hotel Q

Industry affiliations

Make It Right Foundation Advisory Board Member
BDA, Bund Deutscher Architekten
Associate Member American Institute of Architects

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