GRAFT was established in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit, and Gregor Hoheisel. Further offices followed in Berlin, Germany in 2001 and Beijing, China in 2003. In 2007 Alejandra Lillo became partner in GRAFT with responsibility for the Los Angeles Office.

GRAFT is a ‘Label’ for Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Music and the “pursuit of happiness”. Since the firm was established, it has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects in multiple disciplines and locations. With the core of the firm’s enterprises gravitating around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and “grafting” the creative potentials and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in the firm’s expansion into the fields of exhibition design and product design, art installations, academic projects and “events” as well as in the variety of project locations in Germany, China, UAE, Russia, Georgia, in the U.S. and Mexico, to name a few.

Spread across continents, multiple disciplines and experience levels there is a mix of native and for¬eign at all locations and in all phases of a graft project. The consequential connections and adja¬cencies produced and mutated out of this richness of process both inspire and drive graft and its body of work.