GRAFT was established in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit, and Gregor Hoheisel. Further offices followed in Berlin, Germany in 2001 and Beijing, China in 2003. In 2007 Alejandra Lillo became partner in GRAFT with responsibility for the Los Angeles Office.

GRAFT is a ‘Label’ for Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Music and the “pursuit of happiness”. Since the firm was established, it has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects in multiple disciplines and locations. With the core of the firm’s enterprises gravitating around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and “grafting” the creative potentials and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in the firm’s expansion into the fields of exhibition design and product design, art installations, academic projects and “events” as well as in the variety of project locations in Germany, China, UAE, Russia, Georgia, in the U.S. and Mexico, to name a few.

Spread across continents, multiple disciplines and experience levels there is a mix of native and for?eign at all locations and in all phases of a graft project. The consequential connections and adja cencies produced and mutated out of this richness of process both inspire and drive graft and its body of work.

GRAFT于1998年成立于加州洛杉矶，创始人是Lars Kruckeberg, Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit以及Gregor Hoheisel。2001年及2003年GRAFT分别在德国柏林和中国北京设立工作室。2007年，Alejandra Lillo 成为GRAFT公司合伙人，主要负责洛杉矶工作室的工作。

GRAFT被看成建筑、城市规划、展览设计、音乐以及“追求快乐”的标识。自成立以来，GRAFT便接受委托，从事各类不同类型与地区的项目设计和管理; 其核心业务倾向于以建筑设计与建筑环境为中心，同时总是注重跨越专业学科的界限，把无限创意与各种实体的方法有机结合起来。这在GRAFT的业务拓展方向中已有所反映， 如音乐、汽车设计、艺术安装、院校工程以及“特别活动”等，业务足迹遍及德国、爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、意大利、法国、美国与墨西哥。

我们的设计队伍分布在各大洲，跨越多个学科以及各个经验层次，正努力工作在各地区的、“嫁接性”建筑工程的各个阶段。在这个丰富的工作过程中所相应产生和演变而出的各种相关性和相邻性的成果是“嫁接性”工程及其工作机构的灵感和动力。