Christoph Kohl (20 February 1961 â 10 April 2025) was an Italian architect and urban planner based in Berlin, known for his contributions to New Classical architecture and New Urbanism in Europe.
Kohl studied architecture at the University of Innsbruck (1981âÂÂ1984), the Technical University of Vienna (1984âÂÂ1986), and graduated from the UniversitàIuav di Venezia in 1988. From 1993, he ran an architectural office in partnership with Rob Krier in Berlin.
In 2010, he became the sole owner of Christoph Kohl Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, which became CKSA | Christoph Kohl Stadtplaner Architekten GmbH in 2018. In 2024, he founded CKSA | Christoph Kohl Städtebau Agrotektur UG (hb), with a focus on nature-integrated urbanism.
He advocated for compact, human-scaled, and historically rooted urban forms. From 2018 to 2021, he was a visiting professor at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau and taught at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Ho Chi Minh City in 2020âÂÂ2021. Beginning in 2022, he contributed regular columns on urban culture to the South Tyrolean newspaper Dolomiten.
Christoph Kohl died unexpectedly at his Berlin office on 10 April 2025, at the age of 64. He was a committed advocate for human-centered urbanism, believing that cities should be built for people, not investors â a vision that continues to resonate through his work and influence.