Christoph Kronhagel
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Christoph Kronhagel was born 1958 in Wolfsburg (DE) studied architecture at the RWTH University of Aachen from 1980-88. During his studies he developed an interdisciplinary way of working that enabled him to use all possibilities of visual designing. His ambition was to understand architecture as a medium for communication: How is it possible to reflect social conditions in a way that the citizens will be provided with a sensual orientation? In 1991 the company ag4 was established as a consortium for four dimensional constructions. Ag4 grew into an interdisciplinary company that creates media architectural projects which enable companies like, BMW, Aventis and Merck Serono, to communicate their identity in public space. The idea of transparent media façades was realised in 2004 when ag4 developed the application of LED’s that made it possible to design and install the first transparent media façade for the T-mobile company in Bonn. In 2008, Christoph Kronhagel left ag4 and established KRONHAGEL MEDIATECTURE GmbH in order to serve customers with holistic solutions for their mediatectures in the future. In addition to its formative competencies, strategy consulting, development and networking of mediatecture with various communication channels are among the range of services offered by Kronhagel Mediatecture – services which architects, companies, urban planners and investors equally benefit from. As base for this work Christoph Kronhagel published the book „Mediatecture“, Springer NewYork 2010.