Architect:
Thomas Spiegelhalter Studio www-rcf.usc.edu/~spiegelh

Location:
Los Angeles and Freiburg, Germany

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Founded:
1989

Design staff:
21

Partners:
Thomas Spiegelhalter (above); Christoph Kapeller, AIA, Mitchell de Jarnett, AIA, Peter Drecker, Harry Rheinburger, Ingomar Belz

Education:
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany, M.A. in 3D design, architecture, and town planning, 1987–88; Art School, Flensburg, Germany, fine arts diploma, 1982

Work history: Practice—Partner in firms in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Freiburg, Germany, 1987–90; Academic—University of Southern California, 2003 to present; Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 2000–03; University of Applied Science, Leipzig, Germany, 1999–2000; University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1990–92

Key completed projects:
Solar Cultural Center, Breisach, Germany, 1998; Solar-powered town houses, Freiburg, Germany, 1997; “Gravel Pit Architecture” exhibition space,
Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1996–98

Key current projects:
Prototype for prefabricated, multistory, mixed-use building, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 2003–05; retrofit and additions to mixed-use multistory building, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 2003–06

See the December 2003 issue of Architectural Record for full coverage of this firm.