Daniel Dendra

Before founding aA Daniel Dendra was working at various design offices in London, Moscow, Düsseldorf and Rotterdam such as A.M.O. (Rem Koolhaas) and Zaha Hadid Architects. Daniel was involved in projects of all scales from regional planning (Hollocore - AMO 2002), master planning, several large scale tower projects in Spain, Dubai and Australia, architectural design (shopping centers, offices and residential in Spain, Russia, Germany and UK), exhibition design (Spymaker - London and Indianapolis 2006) and small scale installations (Urban Nebula, London, 2007).

After leading a studio together with Dr. Jenny Lowe at Brighton University (UK) Daniel Dendra was appointed visiting professor at DIA (Dessau Institute of Architecture | Bauhaus Dessau) in 2007 where he is leading a design studio. Since 2010 Daniel has become a studio master of GREENlab together with Thomas Auer (Transsolar) at the Ecole Spéciale d´Architecture in Paris (ESA Paris ).

In 2008 and 2009 Daniel was initiating several student competitions such as the Zeppelin- Station in Moscow, canI in Kiev and the School of the Future in Cairo . In 2008 Daniel was curator of CANactions 2009 - a festival for young architects in Kiev, Ukraine. In 2010 he is curating a lecture and workshop series for Russian speaking designers and architects called DAS!

Daniel Dendra is a founding partners of the OpenSourceDesign Network: OpenSimSim.