Michael Grugl

Critic

Michael Grugl is an Austrian innovator and architect. After receiving his first innovation award at age 16, he studied at the Technical University Vienna, from which he holds a MArch (Diplomingenieur für Architektur). He is a former member of Architekturwerkstatt Freistadt, a group focused on the adaptive reuse of historical buildings. Between 2004 and 2012 he was a partner at Any:time Architects in Linz, Austria and Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2007 he co-created the Pixel Hotel, a built and operational urban intervention for Linz09 in Europe. The project was featured in the inaugural issue of the Interior Architecture department's Int/AR journal and won several international awards. In 2012 Grugl co-developed the Monolith, a solar-powered thermodynamic system for domestic heating and hot water provision. He currently heads Sixtus Partners, an architecture firm in Linz, Austria.