Craig Edward Dykers

Craig Dykers was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1961. In 1985 he graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin.[1]

As one of the Founding Partners of Snøhetta, Dykers has led many of Snøhetta’s prominent projects internationally, including the Alexandria Library in Egypt,[2] the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, Norway,[3] the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion in New York City,[4] and the recently completed Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[5] Dykers is currently leading the design of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Expansion in San Francisco,[6] the new Times Square Reconstruction in New York City,[7] both of which are currently under construction, as well as the Calgary Public Library, in Alberta, Canada.[8]

Craig Dykers also designed Arch for Arch, a monument to Desmond Tutu located in Cape Town, South Africa.[9][10]

• Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2004 Bibliotheca Alexandrina[11]
• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award, 2009 Oslo Opera House[12]

Media related to Craig Dykers at Wikimedia Commons

• Snøhetta Official web site
• Interview with The Guardian
• TEDx Broadway 2014
• AIA Architects of Healing
• SFJazz lecture
• PEN Cavafy Tribute and the Town Hall, NY
• Arkiteckturdagen 2001