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Since its founding urban environments architects worked on a number of projects alternating in program, scale and location. Just recently completed is the 3 dimensional design and construction process of the acoustical treatment of the Tonhalle concerthall in Duesseldorf together with HPP architects and Peutz acoustical engineers. Among other projects, urban environments architects are currently involved in the design and construction of an artist living space extension in Duesseldorf which will be completed in 2009.

urban environments architects are not following a style, but more a concept or work process, which is the guiding force for each task. The architecture develops from these different parameters set by the client, site, location and the specific requirements of any given assignment. A highly conceptual approach as the result of project orientated research, based in the active engagement in teaching and research at different architecture schools, is common in their projects. In addition to traditional methods, the office also implies the latest computer technology in order to utilize algorithms, digital routines and computer aided manufacturing to inform and stimulate the design- and building-process.

estate studio - artist summer studio - Sicily, Italy

IGS Sports - three field sportshall - Ahrensburg, Germany

2007 Modern Gallery - Saarland Museum, Germany

2007 Metabolon - urban design, Lindlar, Germany

2006 Hong Kong Design Center, China

2006 Topotron, Skate park Dresden, Germany

2005 Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

2005 Landmark Lausitz Lake District, Germany

2005 Golfcourse Tawern, Germany / Luxemburg

2004 MACEF Design Award - U-mid, Milan, Italy

2004 Grimm Center Berlin, Germany

2003 Nam June Paik Museum, Kyonggi, South Korea

2003 Northern Osaka Station Area, Japan

2003 Community Center Mannheim, Germany

2003 Biomedical Institute Gießen, Germany

2003 "The Loop" BUGA Schwerin, Germany

2002 Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt

2002 Vocational School Aalen, Germany

2002 Cemetery for the Future, Stuttgart, Germany

2005 Price of the state of Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany for young Artists in the section Architecture.

2005 A first Price - Golfcourse Tawern - invited competition for a club house, hotel and housing estate in conjunction with the planning of a golf course in Tawern, Germany (not realized).

2004 MACEF International Design Award - Milan, Italy.

2003 Honourable Mention - "the loop" 2 Phased Competition for the national flower show 2009 in Schwerin Hopfenbruchpark, Germany.

2002 A second Price - "Lebe Wohl" international Ideas competition cemetery for the future - Stuttgart, Germany.

2002 Arch+ Price; Annual Excellence Award by the German magazine Arch+

2000-01 DAAD Stipend - Scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

1996-98 Scholarship by the Fulbright Commission

estate studio - artist summer studio - Sicily, Italy

IGS Sports - three field sportshall - Ahrensburg, Germany

Tonhalle Duesseldorf - concert hall acoustical treatment with HPP Architects and Peutz Acoustical engineers

Icehouse - roof addition to an office building in Duesseldorf with Prof. Ulrich Nether

MTI - Mobile Tourist Interface, Tenerife, Spain

Urban Farming, London, England

Oct. 2007: "Contemporary Prefab Houses" daab - fusion publishing Los Angeles / Frankfurt ISBN: 978-3-86654-022-4

Oct. 2006: "1000x European Architecture" book publication, Verlagshaus Braun - Berlin, Germany. ISBN 10: 3-938780-10-X - ISBN 13: 978-3-938780-10-X

April 2006: Architecture Plus Magazin Issue 11 "Projects" Architecture magazine - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

March 2006: "Deutsches Architektenblatt" | (german architects sheet) Interview with Mark Mückenheim / architecture magazine - Berlin, Germany.

Jan. 2006: Pop Up - weekly TV show about urban culture, RTP channel - Lisboa , Portugal.

Dec. 2005: K.west "Kunst und Bau" (Art and Building) / cultural magazine - Duesseldorf, Germany.

Nov. 2005: NRW Price catalogue - publication of the government of the state of North Rhine Westfalia - Duesseldorf, Germany.

Sept. 2005: designklicks.com internetpublication with Spiegel Online - Hamburg, Germany.

July 2005: Beaux Arts Magazine - "contemporary architecture" written by Céline Saraiva - Paris, France.

Dec. 2004: "portable architecture" book publikation Linksbooks - Barcelona, Spain. - ISBN: 84-89861-38-2

July 2004: L'ARCA - Magazine - "Agora - dreams and Visions" Italy

May 2004: Wettbewerbe Aktuell (Competition Magazine Germany) competition results "the loop" - BUGA Schwerin.

Jan. 2004: designboom - MACEF design Award internetpublication - Milano Italy.

Nov. 2003: "new italian blood" internet publication - Italy.

Sept. 2003: Nam June Paik Museum Catalogue - Kyonggi Cultural Foundation South Korea.

Sept. 2003: "taschen's 1000 favourite websites" book publikation Taschen Verlag Cologne. English, French, German: ISBN 3-8228-2586-7 Japanese: ISBN 4-88783-252-4

Dec. 2002: "Lebe Wohl, der letze Abschied" book publikation including the winners of the competition - Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart - ISBN 3-89790-182-X.

Dec. 2002: Arch+ 163 Magazine Arch+ Price 2002 "urban farming" Aachen and Berlin, Germany.

Nov. 2002 "Unit 20" book publication Actar, Barcelona Spain - ISBN 84-9705-275-7

Oct. 2002: Architecture Plus Magazine 02|02 "Genius Loci" - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Oct. 2002: Wettbewerbe Aktuell (Competition Magazine Germany) competition results for the "Lebe Wohl" competition.

Sep. 2002: Exhibition Catalogue "Raumanzug" - "Urban Hubris" Club A Cologne.

Juni 1999: "ad-hefte: Hommage à Bernhard Pfau" book publikation - Duesseldorf, Germany.

Guest critic at the Academy for International Education Düsseldorf, exchange program with Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.

March 2008
"_ction - form follows fun" Lecture at South Bank
University - School of Architecture, London.

"urban farming" Lecture at the Architectural Association
Diploma Unit 3 naja & deostos, London.

Guest critic at the Architectural Association
Diploma Unit 3 naja & deostos, London.

Guest critic at the Royal College of Art - School of Architecture, London - Diploma Unit ADS1
Roberto Bottazzi & Tobias Klein.

December 2007
Adaptable surfaces - workshop at the Universität für
Angewandte Kunst (University of applied Arts) Vienna.

November 2007
Lecture "conceptual design" at the University of Cologne.

August 2007
Lecture "_ction - form follows fun" at Syracuse University, New York.

June 2007
Lecture "conceptual design" at the FHFFM Frankfurt.

Guest Critic at the 2007 design Workshop - Master of Urban Planning NRW in cooperation with the universities of Bochum, Dortmund, Cologne and Siegen

May 2007
Guest Critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture,
University College London.

Guest Critic at the University of Westminster School
of Architecture, London.

Lecture "conceptual design" at the Technical University Munich.

April 2007
Guest Critic Peter Behrens School of Architecture, Duesseldorf.

Lecture "urban environments - projects" Academy for International Education Düsseldorf / Exchange Program - Texas A&M University.

March 2007
Guest Critic CCC Bochum - School of Architecture.

October 2006
Guest Critic University of Utah, College of Architecture +
Planning, Salt Lake City, USA.

Sept. 2006
Critic Plan Project- "Cityscape - space between city-ground
and city-sky" Workshop at Plan06 in conjunction with
the Federation of German Architects (BDA), Cologne.

April 2006
Euregio Workshop at the Academy van Bouwkunst
Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Lecture "_ction - form follows fun" Academy for International
Education Duesseldorf.

Guest Critic Academy for International Education
Düsseldorf with students from Texas A&M University.

May 2005
Guest Critic at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Unit 20
Marcos Cruz and Marjan Colletti.

April 2005
Euregio Workshop at Zeche Zollverein UNESCO World
Heritage and Blue Box Bochum.

Feb. 2005
Lecture "_ction - form follows fun" Kunstakademie am Staedel
(Staedelschool Arts Academy) Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

Jan. 2005
Lecture "_ction - form follows fun" Universität für
angewandte Kunst (University of applied Arts) Vienna.

Jun & Oct. ‘04
Guest Critic at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture,
(PBSA) Duesseldorf. Class of Prof. Anton Marcus Pasing.

Sept. 2004
Lecture "_ction - form follows fun" Academy of Art University San Francisco / USA.

Guest Critic Academy of Art University San Francisco / USA

May 2004
Lecture "Concept and Context II" for first and second year students at the RWTH Aachen.

Feb. 2004
"Inside Out" building design seminar at the Koeln International
School of Design (KISD) Cologne, Germany.

2003
Lecture "there is no spoon" - on digital architecture, German Werkbund Summer Academy - theory seminar at Schloss Gnadenthal, Germany.

Lecture "Concept and Context" for first and second year students at the RWTH Aachen.

Nov. 2002
Lecture "urban environments - Projects" at the RWTH Aachen.

Nov. 2002 - Feb. 2008
Assistant Professor (Tutor) at the Technical University (RWTH) of Aachen, Chair of Building Science and Architectural Design (Prof. Klaus Kada).

2002
Lecture "Digital Architectural Design" at the Technical University of Wuppertal.

2002 to 2005
Voluntary Commission Member for the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) as a member of the selection panel for new exchange fellows in the field of architecture.

2001
Lecture "Digital Representation in Architecture" at the Technical University of Wuppertal.

June 2001 - October 2002
Assistant Professor (Tutor) at the Technical University of
Wuppertal, Germany - Department of Architecture -
Chair for Integrated Architectural Design.

1999-2000
Critic und Assistant Thesis Advisor with Edwin Chan
SciArc - Los Angeles.

1999
Teaching Assistant Parsons School of Design - New York.

"New - New" - Exhibition by the BDA (Union of German Architects) of newly appointed members - Residence Munich (June)

Latvian Architecture - Exhibition of student projects of the chair of building science and architectural design - RWTH Aachen in Riga, Latvia (February)

2007
„Adaptable Surfaces" - Exhibition of student projects University of Applied Arts Vienna Exhibition Center Sala Terrena, Heiligenkreuzerhof Wien (December)

Design Biennale Riga - Exhibition of student projects of the chair of building science and architectural design - RWTH Aachen in Riga, Latvia (September - October).

2006
Competition Results "Skatepark Dresden", Town Hall -
Dresden, Germany (August).

2005
Competition Results "Landmark Lausitz Lake District",
Lausitz, Germany (April).

Competition Results "Extension Kunsthalle Bremen",
Museum of modern Art - Bremen, Germany (August).

2004
MACEF spring salon, fiera milano international
Designfair - Milano - Italy. (Jan.-Feb.)

"urban farming" - University of Tokyo (Jan.-March).

Competition Results BUGA Schwerin (April).

Competition Results "Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm - Zentrum"
Berlin (September).

2003
"Unit 20" Exhibition of the Bartlett Unit 20 at Valencia
School of Architecture Spain (September-October).

Competition Results "urban island" chuo-koukaido hall -
Osaka, Japan (March).

Competition Results "Grand Egyptian Museum"
Competition Building - Cairo, Egypt (August).

"Lebe Wohl" Exhibition at the Wirtschaftsclub Hannover-Langenhagen, Germany (Sep.-Dec.).

2002
"Lebe Wohl" Exhibition at the Landesgewerbeamt Stuttgart,
Germany. (June / July).

"Lebe Wohl" Exhibition at the Haus der Wirtschaft Stuttgart,
Germany (Sep.-Dec.).

"Urbane Hybris", exhibition of the postcard competition -
Plan02 in Cologne, Germany (September).

2001
"Radical Architecture II" Exhibition at the Museum for
Applied Arts Cologne, Germany (September).

"urban farming" Bartfest 2001 - Bartlett School of Architecture, London, England (June).

1999
"Space-X" Exhibition - Aronson Gallery, New York (April).

NAAB Exhibition "the horizontal façade" - at Parsons School of Design Architecture Department, New York (February).

1998
"the colors of Pollock" (four ink on vellum drawings) Exhibition at 26E. 13th Street Gallery, New York. (April).

1996
"Hommage à Bernhard Pfau" two mixed media
drawings exhibition at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (October).

"Hommage à Bernhard Pfau" two mixed media
drawings exhibition at the VHS-Building Düsseldorf (September).