Chris Bosse

Chris Bosse is director of LAVA based in Sydney, Australia and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. With Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck he founded LAVA in 2007 as a network with offices in Sydney, Stuttgart, Berlin, and Vietnam. LAVA merges future technologies with the patterns of organisation found in nature to build a smarter, friendlier, more socially and environmentally responsible future. Educated in Germany and Switzerland, he worked with several high-profile European architects before moving to Sydney. Whilst Associate Architect at PTW Architects in Sydney he completed many projects in Asia and the Middle East. His work on the Watercube Olympic swimming centre in Beijing received the Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale and the AIA Jorn Utzon Award for International Architecture; he won an Emerging Architect Award from RIBA in 2008 London, a 40 Under 40 Award in 2012 and Australian Design Honour at the Australian Design Centre in Sydney in 2015. LAVA was the 2016 European Architecture Laureate which honours the commitment and achievements of the best European architects who have determined a more critical, intellectual, and artistic approach to the design of buildings and cities.