Christos Passas

Design Manager

London, England, United Kingdom28 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led award-winning architectural projects
  • Innovated office culture design for Sberbank
  • Founded a digital design laboratory at DIA
Stackforce AI infers this person is an experienced architect specializing in innovative and sustainable design solutions.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Architectural DesignSustainable DesignUrban DesignDigital FabricationParametric Design

Other Skills

BIM3D visualizationMixed-useConstructionRenderingDesign ResearchAlgorithmic designAutoCADPhotoshopSketchUpInterior DesignMicrosoft OfficeInDesignIllustratorRevit

About

Driven and passionate about Architecture

Experience

28 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
11 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
28 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Dia (bauhaus) school of architecture

Guest DAAD Professor

Sep 2008Jul 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Founded studio X a digital design , algorithmic experimentation laboratory
  • http://diastudiox.net/?page_id=205
Digital FabricationAlgorithmic design

Architectural association

Course Tutor

Sep 2006Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Taught Parametric urbanism 2&3 studios with Patrik Schumacher, Theo Spyropoulos, Yusuke Obuchi, Tom Verebes, Shajay Bhooshan, Alisa Andrasek and Robert Stuart-Smith
Parametric DesignDesign Research

Zaha hadid architects

2 roles

Design Director

Feb 1998Present · 28 yrs 3 mos

Architectural DesignSustainable DesignBIMDigital Fabrication3D visualization

Associate Director

Feb 1998Jul 2019 · 21 yrs 5 mos

  • Christos is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects.
  • He has worked with the firm since February 1998 and as Design Director he has lead numerous projects and winning competitions, including most notably the Sterling Prize nominee, the Phaeno Science Center Wolfsburg, completed in November 2005. The Phaeno was nominated by the Guardian Newspaper as one of the 50 best buildings of the 20th century, together with the Sidney Opera House, the Fallingwater the TWA terminal and others.
  • Recently completed the Dominion Tower for Peresvet Group in Moscow, to high public acclaim which was nominated as one of Moscow's 5 most beautiful buildings. And Best Office Atrium winner 2016, by Next Office.
  • Currently, Christos is in charge of the Opus for OMNIYAT Properties a unique mixed use project, housing a boutique hotel for Meliá group.
  • Recently, has successfully directed the competition design of an innovative Technopark Scheme for Russia's Sberbank, that features trend setting new logics to the organization of office culture.
Architectural DesignSustainable DesignMixed-useUrban DesignParametric Design

Education

Architectural Association

AAGradDesDipl — Architecture

Sep 1996Feb 1998

Pratt Institute

Bachelor of Architecture - BArch — Architecture

Aug 1990Jul 1995

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Architectural Design & Sustainable Design

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience