Barkow Leibinger

"An achievement of Barkow Leibinger's latest built projects is the dissolution of the flat facade to a sculptural volumetric surface-making that mediates between the interior and the exterior." Niklas Maak, F.A.Z.  Barkow Leibinger is an American/German architectural practice based in Berlin and founded in 1993 by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger. Their discursive research-based approach to architecture and design allows the work to respond to advancing knowledge and technology locating the practice as an international leader in digital and analogue fabrication techniques. This know-how expands to include new materials and their applications in driving the practice forward as a continuously evolving activity. This focus revolves around a commitment to academic teaching, research and the practice itself autonomous work-areas, which simultaneously inform each other beneficially. This is an approach that distinguishes each project as distinct in relationship to client/architect dialogue, location, aesthetics, and purpose. Barkow Leibinger’s work is realized over a wide range of scales and building types including building for workplace (industry, office, and master-planning), cultural, housing, event spaces, exhibitions and installations in the public realm internationally. Current completed buildings include the Trutec Building in Seoul, an event pavilion for Trumpf in Stuttgart and the Tour Total office high-rise in Berlin. Their work has been shown at the Architecture Biennale Venice, recently at the Marrakech Biennale and is included in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, and the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt. They are winners of the Marcus Prize for emerging architects and recently a Global Holcim Award for sustainability.