Barkow Leibinger

In 1993, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger founded the practice which has grown into a team of 60+ architects, model builders and support staff. Active internationally, the roots of the firm go back to building for industry, companies whose technologies drove an interest in evolving technologies and craft.

Barkow Leibinger work internationally throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. Their work has been published extensively and has won numerous prizes including the prestigious Marcus Prize for Architecture and a Holcim Prize for Innovation. Barkow Leibinger’s work is diverse in scale and type including buildings, master-planning, and site-specific installations. Current projects include the Estrel Tower hotel, Berlin’s tallest building, Kurfürstenstrasse work/live building in Berlin, around 800 housing units on Atlanta’s Beltline, and the new Weissenhof.Forum in Stuttgart, Germany.

Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger have served on numerous juries including for the Venice Biennale, the Deutsches Architektur Museum Preis, and the Progressive Architecture Awards Program. Their work has been published in series as Atlas of Fabrication, Bricoleur Bricolage, and Revolutions of Choice by the Architectural Association and Walther König. A monograph of their work Spielraum was published by Hatje Cantz in 2015.

Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger have taught extensively throughout their career as visiting professors at Cornell, The Architectural Association, Princeton, the Harvard GSD, EPFL Lausanne. Regine Leibinger was the Professor for Building Construction and Design, at the Technische Universität Berlin from 2006-2018. She is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architect, and is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Bauabteilung, Berlin. Regine Leibinger serves on several boards including for the American Academy in Berlin, MIT School of Architecture, the Harvard GSD, and for TRUMPF GmbH.

They have exhibited their work internationally including at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, 2014, 2025, The Chicago Architectural Biennale 2017, 2023, and the Marrakech Biennale 2012, including recently a retrospective at the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin entitled “Revolutions of Choice” in 2020. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Heinz Architectural Center, Pittsburgh.

Competences: Industrial | Office and Administration Buildings | Cultural | Conversion and Renovation | Installations | Temporary Architecture | Masterplan | Corporate Design