Christina Seilern

Christina Seilern is a Swiss-Austrian architect. She won the 2013 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Prize for architecture and the 2013 RIBA International Award for House of the Year. She established London-based Studio Seilern Architects (SSA) in 2006. Early life Seilern attended school in Switzerland. She studied architecture at the Wellesley College as an undergraduate and attended Columbia University for her master's degree graduating in 1996. Seilern began working for Rafael Viñoly at Rafael Viñoly Architects in 1997. According to an interview:"During my studies at Columbia I went to a lecture held by [architect] Rafael Vinaly. Although it was the period when deconstruction was fashionable, he talked about the Tokyo forum and in particular about one detail. I was struck by his love of craftsmanship. I worked for him in New York. A few years later I went to see him to tell him that I was going to leave my job because I wanted to move to London. Rafael’s reaction was: “let’s set up an office in London”. Career Seilern is the founder and lead architect at Studio Seilern Architects, established in 2006, in London. Seilern claims that the buildings of Louis Khan and Eero Saarinen inspired her work.