Management Team

Michael Lark, Development Manager of TKG International, is responsible for oversight of TKG's new projects in the United States. To the task he brings 14 years of professional and academic experience in real estate design, development, and construction.

Lark began his professional career in Berlin, Germany as an architect. There he worked for Buero Horn, a firm specializing in construction management which oversaw the construction and renovation of Berlin landmarks such as the Kant Triangle, the Museum of Transportation Technology and the Hamburger Bahnhof. At Buero Horn, Lark was responsible for both design and construction of renovations and new projects. The scope of work ranged from the management of tenant improvements in retail space through the realization of luxury lofts in existing buildings.

In 1996, Lark joined Woeber + Partner where he played a critical role in the conceptualization and completion of an award winning apartment building project, a monastery and various commercial renovations. He later co-founded Schulte-Frohlinde Architekten, helping expand the firm from two persons to 12 and annual revenues from zero to 600,000 DM. While a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lark served as a Teaching Assistant both at MIT's School of Architecture and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. His research investigated collaborative design in the building industry in Japan and Denmark. At Cornell University, he served as Executive Editor of an academic journal focused on contemporary issues in real estate.

Lark completed both a BA and a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Southern California, a Master of Science in Architectural Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Real Estate at Cornell University. He is a licensed architect in the European Union and a member of the Urban Land Institute.