Veit Kugel

Veit Kugel, Dipl. Ing. is a Senior Associate at KVA MATx.  He graduated with a Master of Architecture and Urban Design degree from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Veit Kugel received a scholarship by the DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service) in 1995 to attend a Master’s Degree program in architecture at the Southern Californian Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) in Los Angeles where he was graduated 1997. 
After practicing in Stuttgart and Los Angeles he joined Kennedy & Violich Architecture in 1999. Mr. Kugel was involved as a teaching assistant for Professor Sheila Kennedy at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and co-authored the book Bugs, Fish, Floors And Ceiling, Luminous Bodies and the Contemporary Problem of Material Presence (Harvard University, Graduate School of Design).
Since the fall of 2000, Mr. Kugel has led teams of designers and consulting engineers for architectural competitions, exhibitions and projects varying in scale from building products to large scale infrastructural projects in the private and public sector. He is part of the leadership at KVA MATx , an interdisciplinary design practice which engages material fabrication, digital technology and the conservation of natural resources to expand the public life of buildings and cities.  His work has been featured in Wettbewerbe Aktuell, Arch +, Architecture, Häuser, Süddeutsche Zeitung,, Spiegel Reporter, and exhibited at  Cooper Hewitt Museum, Vitra Museum, IBA Hamburg, Wexner Center for the Arts.

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