Peter is a co-founder and the Design Director at Spaceagency. He is a German Architect and Urban Designer. Peter oversees and sets the vision for our design work. His design talent is a driving force behind Spaceagency’s work. He has delivered a range of high profile projects internationally in wayfinding, placemaking and user experience across the masterplanning, retail, sport, commercial and transport sectors. He brings a long track record of experience on large scale masterplans and architectural projects having worked at some of the world’s most notable design practices including UNstudio, OMA, Future Systems and Wilkinson Eyre.
Before joining Spaceagency, Peter worked at OMA and contributed to mega-scale masterplan projects in the Middle East. Peter was instrumental in conceptualising the Central Embassy tower in Bangkok and worked on the delivery of the Spencer Dock Bridge in Dublin at Future Systems, two projects which saw the realisation of parametric design. In London he became project architect for the delivery of the Emirates Air Line cable car across the Thames, a project completed in time for the London 2012 Olympics. Early on in his career Peter won several international urban design competitions, Europan 7 and 8 and Archiprix International, looking at strategies for urban renewal in European Cities.
At Spaceagency Peter has led the successful growth of the company over the past 7 years. In 2019 Peter’s business acumen led him to be chosen in a competitive selection process by Goldman Sachs to be a part of their 10,000 Small Businesses Growth programme at the University of Oxford Said Business School. The same year was also selected for Cohort 14 of the Mayor of London's International Business Programme. Peter focuses on driving the company’s growth in both Australia and Asia.
Peter is passionate about innovation and advancement and has taught Urban Design and Architecture since 2009 at institutions such as the Bartlett at University College London, University of Cardiff, the University of California at Berkeley and the and the KADK, (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation). He has jointly led a cluster at the Smartgeometry Workshops in Copenhagen in 2012 and was on the Smartgeometry organizing committee for the 2013 conference. Peter has also been a guest critic and lecturer at the University of California Berkeley, Royal College of Art and Milan Polytechnic and taught advanced 3D modelling and generative scripting at the University of East London. In 2013 his work for the Emirates Air-line in London was published in the ‘Advances in Architectural Geometry’ publication, where he was a key-note presenter at the corresponding conference at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.