Faculty Profile

Craig Edward Dykers, architect, was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1961 and has lived extensively in Europe and North America. Dykers received a bachelor's degree in architecture at the University of Texas at Austin after initial studies in medicine and art.

 

Dykers has worked in Texas and California and later co-founded the architecture, landscape and interior design company of Snøhetta arkitektur landskap AS in Oslo, Norway in 1989 and in New York City in 2004. He worked with the design of several key projects including the Alexandria Library in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site in NYC. Other projects have included the Lillehammer Winter Olympics Art Museum and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin.

 

Active professionally and academically, Dykers has been a member of the Norwegian Architecture Association, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Arts in England. He has been the Diploma Adjudicator at the Architectural College in Oslo and a Distinguished Professor at City College in New York City. He has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas. In addition, Dykers has been commissioned to complete various installation art projects in public spaces, many of these focused on the notion of context, nature and human nature.