Konstantinos Labrinopoulos

Konstantinos Labrinopoulos was born in 1970 in Athens, Greece. A graduate of the School of Αrchitecture, National Technical University of Athens (1994). He received his Master's degree in SCI-Arc, Los Angeles in 1996 In 2001 he co-founded Klmf and at 2007 he founded KLAB architecture. In 2006 he was one of the co-founders of the movement ‹Athens 9› In 2008 Wallpaper magazine has included KLab as one of the most upcoming architecture practices in the world. He has given lectures and taught in workshops in Europe and in Israel and his work has participated in many architecture exhibitions in Greece and abroad as the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2012 with the work “urban cubes”. He has been visiting professor at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, a visiting critic at the Hochschule fur Technik Stuttgart Architecture School and he was teaching until 2018 at the Architecture School of the University of Patras. His work has been nominated twice for the Mies Van Der Rohe award, shortlisted for the Piranesi award among others, and in 2012 KLab architecture won the prestigious award best commercial project 2011 for Placebo pharmacy at X International Awards by Domus Russia. KLAB architecture work has been published widely in architectural magazines and books internationally.