Carl Fredrik Svenstedt was born in 1967 in Stockholm. He graduated from Harvard in 1989 and the Yale School of Architecture in 1993 and founded his own office in Paris in 2000 after working for Santiago Calatrava and Jean François Milou in Paris and Asymptote in New York. He is Associate Professor at the Ecole Speciale d´Architecture and taught architectural design at La Villette and Rouen.