Isabell Klunker ist Projektleiterin bei Max Dudler und für das Büro München zuständig. Sie studierte Architektur an der Technischen Universität Dortmund. Nach 10 Jahren Büromitarbeit bei Helmut Jahn in Chicago / Berlin, ist sie seit 2010 Teil des Büros Max Dudler und dort als Projektleiterin für zahlreiche Bauten
verantwortlich. Wichtige Arbeiten sind u.a. 4 Wohn- und Geschäftshäuser im Schwabinger Tor in München, die städtebauliche Masterplanung Neufreimann (ehemaligen Bayernkaserne München) sowie das Quartier Rieplgründe in Gallneukirchen – Österreich.

Isabell Klunker is project manager at Max Dudler. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Dortmund. After working 10 years for Helmut Jahn in Chicago / Berlin, she has been part of the Max Dudler office since 2010, where she is responsible for numerous buildings as project manager. Important work include Mixed use building ensemble at Schwabinger Tor Munich, Urban Masterplaning Neufreimann (former Bayernkaserne Munich) and a Mixed use quarter Rieplgründe in Gallneukirchen – Austria.

Daria Grouhi studied architecture in Berlin and London and is director at Kuehn Malvezzi architects in Berlin. As a project leader she oversaw medium and large scale prominent building projects ranging from housing over commercial to cultural typologies. She is currently responsible for the planning of the House of One, an inter-religious place of worship and learning with a synagogue, a church and a mosque under one and the same roof to be built in the center of Berlin.

Tomás Contreras is a recognized award winning designer with experience in all levels of three dimensional design, concept development, construction and design management. Tom has worked at director level for over 20 years and has extensive global experience in the trendy lifestyle and leisure design industry. Having worked on projects throughout Europe, America and Asia. Within the last 20 years Tomás has envisioned, developed and directed both high performance design teams and product development for platforms like Gensler, the luxury global real estate developer Emaar and most recently for the prestigious German architectural studio Ippolito Fleitz Group.

Amanda Simo is a multi-disciplinary Designer and Architect with an M.Arch in Design for Performance and Interaction, from the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London. She works as an Architect at Aukett Heese GmbH with a focus on Technical Project Development and Design.

Her experience includes collaborative architectural projects such as residential, commercial, workspaces, and urban design competitions in Latinamerica and Europe. Her background in technology and coding includes topics such as robotics, virtual reality, immersive experiences, body tracking and performative spaces. This variety of experiences merged with her architectural practice supports her approach to innovative projects across the future of the architectural industry.

Juan Hildebrand has been part of Schwitzke & Partner as a creative director since 2006, managing projects for renowned European companies implementing interior, product and architectural design projects in different continents. He was also responsible for the Dubai Branch for 3 years, taking care of the Middle East business. Argentinian by birth, he is unquestionably an expert when it comes to intercultural understanding and a passionate designer specialising in interior and product design.

Michael Lohmann has studied architecture and urban planning at RWTH Aachen University and is working for Carpus+Partner AG since 2020.

Before joining Carpus and Partner, he worked at Delugan Meissl Associated Architects in Vienna. There he led major projects, some of which were international; the Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang in Seoul and Taiyuan Zoo in China as well as local projects in Germany such as the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. As the Head of Design Technology, Michael Lohmann was responsible for the digital interfaces, the optimization of working methods as well as the further development of the DMAA “Digital Design Ecosystem”.

At Carpus und Partner, he serves as site manager in Berlin. As an expert and Team lead in the department of Business ® Evolution, he and his team develop creative and innovative concepts and solutions for national and international projects and new office/laboratory environments for various sectors of industry as well as for cutting-edge research. His main topics are innovative working environments, masterplanning as well as new smart building/smart city concepts.

Selected clients include Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Mercedes Benz Group AG, DMT + Deutsches Bergbau Museum Bochum and WIN.DN Düren.

Elliot is a Service Design Lead & Architect at Fjord working at the intersection of physical & digital design. He is passionate about decarbonizing construction & the built environment for a just transition. He came to Space & Interaction design in a roundabout way having studied Art History and Architecture in the United States before coming to work in Europe.

Through his distinctive background, he’s able to approach problems in a more holistic and unique fashion. In his view designing for better human experience goes beyond the screen, encompassing physical and person to person interactions which can be enhanced by digital.

He believes that the key to developing a better human experiences is to first gain a thorough understanding of the obstacles. By researching the underlying causes of the challenge you can design a more appropriate and effective solution.

Elliot is an International DGNB Consultant. (German Sustainable Building Council)

Lene Nettelbeck, co-founder of Gun architects, is passionate about the architecture that engages sensitive and consistent elements from their cultural and environmental contexts.  From the Rainforest, a water performative installation built in central London to Mesetas Project, a large-scale physical manifesto of rural urbanism in the north of Chile. Lene has worked on the design and construction of houses, pavilions, squares, parks, promenades, playgrounds and a large number of less functional but strongly expressive and sculptural structures deployed in the natural landscape.
Since the foundation of GUN Architects 12 years ago, her work has been awarded and published several times, been exhibited at the RIBA in London, the Architectural Association and the PS1 in New York among others. Ongoing projects include the design and construction of modular housing typologies, a residential park in Leipzig and a pavilion to listen and perform music in Chile.

Ezgi Dikdur-Duztepe is a designer at heart, currently working as a Design Director at Fjord, based in Berlin.

Her approach to design blends empathy, creativity and logic. She specializes in service design, with a focus on design research and design strategy. She believes that only by asking the right questions, one can achieve high quality of craft, as properly defining the problem space is the first step towards good design.

Ezgi likes to create synergies between different industries. Throughout her career, she has worked with clients from industries such as: financial services, medical technology, pharmaceuticals, automotive, consumer retail, telecommunications, industrial equipment and more. Her latest focus areas are industrial transformation, sustainable futures and circularity.

She started her career in Istanbul in 2011, helping to build up one of the first experience design studios, and joined Fjord in 2013, working in Istanbul and Berlin across 5 continents tackling with a variety of design challenges. She has found herself interviewing coffee farmers in Guatemala and truck drivers in Germany, observing oncologists in Finland and validating ideas with telco technicians in UAE.

As a Bauhaus enthusiast, she loves reading about philosophy and history of design.

She holds a BSc in Industrial Design from METU, Turkey and a MSc in Design for Interaction from TUDelft, the Netherlands.

Daniel Torakai is a structural engineer. He studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and wrote his diploma thesis about self-powered skyscrapers at the Department of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Since 2011 Daniel is part of the Werner Sobek Team, first in Stuttgart, Moscow, London and later in Frankfurt. He became a Managing Director at the Frankfurt office in 2021.

Over the past decade, Daniel has worked on several national and international large-scale projects such as the new main station Stuttgart 21, Kuwait International Airport or the new highrise ensemble FOUR in the city centre of Frankfurt.

Daniel is teaching Textile Architecture at the Institute for Leightweight Structures and Conceptual Design at the University of Stuttgart and Sketching for Engineers at the HFT Stuttgart. He is also a lecturer for Highrise Concrete Buildings at the University of Frankfurt.

Leo Faoro has been an architect at Hyphen for more than 24 years, joining its Berlin office in 1998.

He studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts (Hochschule der Künste), graduating in 1996.

In 2004 Leo was appointed as a Director of Hyphen’s Berlin office, managing both the local office and the architectural firm’s operations from Germany. Leo has an excellent track record in the delivery of luxury retail, hospitality, and large-scale logistics and data centre projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

In addition to speaking fluent English and German, Leo also has a working knowledge of French.

FLIP SELLIN is a German born designer, founder and creative director of COORDINATION Berlin, the internationally active office for design, interior and creative direction. He has created spatial designs such as stores and brand-spaces for Porsche Automotive, Deutsche Bank, Nike, BMW,
Microsoft or Futurium and received many awards for his residential projects closely tied to contemporary art and design.
Flip also works as a product designer and creates edition pieces in his own workshop. Raised in Berlin, he actively supports the Berlin design scene since 2001.
Graduating from Kingston University, UK while exchanging with the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands and later studying at the UDK Berlin, his design language repertoire is just the European mix and always finds new facets of expression for every new project he takes on.

Thomas Spranger ist Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung bei Max Dudler. Er studierte
Architektur an der University of North London – UK. Nach Stationen bei Norman Foster
and Partners in London und David Chipperfield Architects in Berlin und Shanghai, ist er
seit 2013 Teil des Büros Max Dudler und ist dort als Projektleiter für zahlreiche Bauten
verantwortlich. Wichtige Arbeiten sind u.a. das Hessische Ministerium für Soziales und
Integration, das Hochhaus Kureck in Wiesbaden und das Projekt Boulevard Pacheco in
Brüssel.
Thomas Spranger is a member of the management team at Max Dudler. He studied
architecture at the University of North London – UK. After working for Norman Foster and
Partners in London and David Chipperfield Architects in Berlin and Shanghai, he has been
part of the Max Dudler office since 2013, where he is responsible for numerous buildings as
project manager. Important works include the Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and
Integration, the Kureck high-rise in Wiesbaden and the Boulevard Pacheco project in
Brussels.

Long time hospitality and experience design aficionado. Developed and managed pioneering hospitality products. Among them, genre-defining Hollmann Beletage as well as artist’s and designer’s haven Altstadt Vienna. Shares „Tourism Product Development“ insights with his students as university lecturer and how to experiencecharacter(.com) as former president of a unique collection of historic hotels and creative minds.
Met BWM as Director of Hospitality during his last assignment at Esterházy, tasking the Vienna based architectural office with a landmark hotel project. And then switched sides. Philipp now oversees and coordinates all hospitality developments of BWM Architekten.

“Makes guests turn off their auto pilot.”

Christiane Flasche, Dipl.-Ing. Architect M. Sc. AAD

Studied architecture at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and received a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, NY

Selected projects:

1996-2006: I. M. Pei Architect, New York

German Historical Museum, Berlin

Schematic design, design development, construction documents (in the New York office), Office and Project Management, Berlin office -Collaboration in bidding and awarding, construction administration (artistic site supervision and coordination of realization)

2003-2006: I. M. Pei Architect, New York / Georges Reuter Architects, Luxembourg

Musée d’Art moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Design development, construction documents, artistic site supervision

since 2006: Eller + Eller Architekten GmbH, Berlin

Office management Berlin

Holzmarktstrasse Berlinovo, Berlin

Project management (General planning) — Schematic design and design development of a large hybrid complex with public swimming pools, student housing, office tower and retail spaces

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Project management for the refurbishment and modernisation of one of Berlin’s most important post-war historical monuments, under special consideration of historic preservation

German Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia

Project management (General planning) – Schematic design, design development, construction documents, collaboration in bidding and awarding

Fünf Morgen Dahlem Urban Village, Berlin

Project management – Schematic design, design development, construction documents, collaboration in bidding and awarding, construction administration for a new living complex in Berlins South with a total of 130 units, grouped around a new lake

Haus der Berliner Festspiele

Project architect for the refurbishment and modernization of a post-war theatre, under special consideration of historic preservation

Florian Thorwart is a German architect and partner of the architecture and interior design practice Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel (ACPV).Graduated in architecture from Technical University of Munich in 2002, he started working at ACPV in 2005 and became partner in 2012.
His most recent projects include Enel Headquarters in Rome, Nove office building in Munich, Raffles
Hotels in Saudi Arabia.
ACPV is currently involved in several international projects, embracing different scales of intervention – from master planning to mixed-use developments, to residential and commercial buildings, corporate headquarters and hotels – in collaboration with a qualified network of specialist consultants.
In 2021, ACPV produced “The Importance of Being an Architect”, a documentary film conceived as a
virtual dialogue and musical journey in four acts, which investigates the responsibility of architects in
building the society of tomorrow. The film has been featured in several festivals worldwide.

Harald Müller studied architecture at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Technische Universität Berlin. He started working for David Chipperfield Architects in 1994 as an executive architect in Berlin. After the practice won the competition for the Neues Museum, Harald founded the Berlin office of David Chipperfield Architects, together with Mark Randel and Eva Schad in 1998. Since then he has been managing director of the Berlin office and became a partner in 2011.
Harald is responsible for the financial control and contract management of the Berlin office and for the management of numerous projects, including the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island, the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar and the Amorepacific headquarters in Seoul

Johannes studied architecture at the Technical University of Aachen graduating 1998. During his career as an architect, he specialized in the construction of buildings primarily within the health care sector. With HDR, Johannes serves as the Managing Director for Germany, leading business operations, corporate development, and sitting on the global HDR management team.

Company Profile:

For us, architecture is – besides the language – one of the greatest cultural achievements of mankind. It goes beyond meeting the basic needs of the individual, such as shelter, safety, and security, to reflect the relationship of human beings to their environment. It embodies human conceptions of space, structure and connectivity.

HDR was founded in 1917 and flourished under the leadership of engineers Henningson, Durham and Richardson, who created civil engineering structures that reorganised and improved the built environment. This idea continues to drive our global HDR network.

Worldwide, HDR‘s designers, architects and engineers work alongside clients to develop integrated strategies and sustainable solutions for complex problems in the fields of health, civil engineering, science and technology. This is reflected throughout our 100 year history and in who we are today with more than 10,000 employees worldwide and more than 1,000 completed projects in Germany alone.

Karen Klessinger is an expert for destination development at the Berlin based dan pearlman Group, a collection of owner-led, strategic creative agencies boasting over 120 employees. Karen’s expertise is focused on mixed-use projects, district development and placemaking. Already since 2000, she has been responsible as creative director for brand experiences, retail concepts and worlds of leisure for clients such as BMW / MINI, Bikini Berlin, Google and Zoo Berlin. Her work mirrors the interdisciplinary approach of the agency group. There, her focus lies on the co-creative development of urban destinations in collaboration with project developers, operators, cities and municipalities. Karen Klessinger is actively engaged in creating and securing the future of inner cities, which for her will be shaped by a holistic mix and a new quality of intermediate spaces. In her opinion, real identity and what she describes as “happy places” can only be created through human-focused concepts

Head of Design Lauren Touhey-Otto, born 1990 in Englewood, NJ, graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with merits–earning grants, scholarships and awarded projects. Pratt, which ranked 11th in US Architecture Universities, taught Lauren the spatial knowledge to organize and design large scale architectural program and the technical skills to study and visualize concepts and ideas.
During her time in New York, Lauren worked for a number of companies, giving her a range of knowledge. Three years at the Design+Building company, CCP, Ttaught Lauren leadership and problem solving skills within heritage buildings. Lauren oversaw the design process, coordinated the MEP / HVAC with engineers as well as on-site quality management.
Lauren moved to Berlin in 2014 with the goal to experience a different style of living and creating architecture. In April of 2016 she joined the Kinzo team, where her first project was the HQ for an Innovative Health Company in the listed “Berlin Post Station”. The project entailed use case scenarios and a design balance between the raw state with contemporary design. Along taking on design
concepts, Lauren successfully completed international projects in which Kinzo was responsible to bring the project through the design phase and hand over a thorough Design Development Set to a local general contractor. Those experiences set the ground work for Lauren’s roll at Kinzo.
Since 2020, Lauren has steeped into the roll of Partner of Creative Direction, brining impulses and solutions in the array of project.
At Kinzo Lauren was involved in the following projects and relevant references as a project architect (selection): 2016: Headquarters for Innovative Health Company at Postfuhramt, Berlin / SoundCloud, NYC 2017: Native Instruments HQ, Berlin / Zalando Orange HQ,
Berlin / Hines Sudkreuz, Berlin 2018-2020: Nike CHQ, Berlin 2020: rbb WBW (1. Platz) / Umweltbank WBW (1. Platz) / Universal WBW (1. Platz) / Sony Center Lobby D WBW, Berlin (1. Platz) / Siemansstaddt WBW (2. Platz) / Machbarkeitsstudie Rudolfkiez / Machbarkeitsstudie Bundesallee / House of Technology 2021: Machbarkeitsstudie Sony Center / Sony Center Mobilität / Haus des Wissens, Bochum, WBW (1. Platz) / MuRe WBW (1. Platz) / JaHo / Grand Challenges, Adlershof / Villa Z / Laborgh Knorr Bremse

As Studio Director and Principal, Lukasz brings a wide range of experience designing large-scale commercial, residential, and mixed-use spaces. Lukasz leads projects that are changing industry standards and redefining what constitutes ‘world-class’ design in the U.K., Europe, Middle East, and North Africa. He brings deep experience in mixed-use, commercial, hotel, residential, and large-scale retail developments, and is recognised within the industry as a tall buildings expert. Through these projects, Lukasz enjoys the challenge and opportunity of contributing to the cityscape and creating pioneering designs driven by the needs of people and their relationship to both internal and external environments. He is a visiting tutor at the University of Nottingham’s Department of Architecture and Built Environment, and continues to be invited as a juror for several awards programs. He is a sought-after speaker and contributes his expertise at numerous international conferences. Lukasz holds a Master’s degree from Warsaw University of Technology and received his Architect registration (Part 3) at Kingston University in London.

Maibritt is the head of Healthcare in C.F. Møller, and has a wide range of competences – specifically within the fields of hospital design concepts, healing architecture, complicated room programs and function planning in the healthcare sector. Maibritt has participated in a large number of architectural competitions and she has been the architect in charge of quite a few, many of which with a successful result. Another one of Maibritt’s strengths is design development of specific hospital elements in the clinical areas, ex. treatment units, wards and laboratories.

Martin Murphy has been a partner of Störmer Murphy and Partners since 2004. Born in the UK, he studied in London and Madrid before coming to Germany as an architect in 1992. Martin Murphy is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and is involved in various advisory boards focusing on sustainability. In addition to working on national and international competitions and realising our sophisticated projects, he regularly participates in conferences and juries. In addition, he lectures on the work of Störmer Murphy and Partners as well as on current topics in the construction and real estate industry. Störmer Murphy and Partners are an established architectural practice, recognized for their award-winning portfolio of successfully completed comissions with a wide range of typologies, scales and budgets.

Martina joined Barkow Leibinger in 1999 and was appointed Senior Associate in 2005 and Principal in 2020. With over 20 years of professional experience, she gained knowledge in project management on a range of projects varying from master plans and buildings including her execution of the TRUTEC Building in Seoul Korea. In her position as the head of the office’s competition team, she has been responsible for successful competition entries, mediating design and function with engineering and economics. She is currently in charge of the US projects and successfully completed the Harvard ArtLab in Cambridge in 2019 and the New Sid Richardson College at the Rice University in Houston in 2021.

Nille Juul-Sorensen is a world-renowned award-winning architect and holds the position as Director and Global Business Leader for Architecture in Arup.

Nille joined Arup in 2004 in London and has been based both in London and Copenhagen, and recently three and a half years in Toronto, Canada. As per October 2020 Nille will be working from Arup’s Berlin office.

Nille is working on architecture and design projects all over the world, and his experience ranges from multidisciplinary large-scale projects to small industrial design objects. His designs for The Copenhagen Metro and Cityringen, and The City Tunnel in Malmo, changed the perception of infrastructure architecture and especially station design amongst the Scandinavians.

UN’s 17 sustainable development goals are currently an underlying condition in his global design work. As a Global Business Leader for Architecture Nille is responsible for the design quality of Arup’s projects worldwide, and as well for the implementation of sustainable development in any aspect. The general needs for green transition are dominant in his global architectural responsibility.

Born on December 15th, 1979, in Hamburg

(Germany)
• 2000 – 2004 study of Interior Design in
Rosenheim (Germany)
• 2005 – 2007 Interior Designer at Matteo Thun & Partners in Milan (Italy)
• 2007 – 2008 Interior Designer at gmp Architekten von Gerkan Marg und Partner in
Hamburg (Germany)
• 2008 – 2012 Senior Interior Designer at JOI-Design GmbH in Hamburg (Germany)
• 2012 – 2018 Creative Director, Associate at JOI-Design GmbH in Hamburg
(Germany)
• Since 2018 Creative Director, Partner at JOI-Design Innenarchitekten
A D joehnk + partner mbB in Hamburg (Germany)

Thomas Willemeit studied architecture at the Technical University
Braunschweig, where he graduated as Dipl.-Ing. Arch. in 1997, and
partook the masterclass for architecture and urban planning at the
Bauhaus Dessau. Besides his successful career in the architectural
field, he won numerous national prizes as a violin player and a
chorister. He was a visiting professor for architecture at the RWTH Aachen and at Peter Behrens School of Art in Düsseldorf and has been a visiting professor at the TU Delft in 2017/18
In 1998 Thomas Willemeit established GRAFT in Los Angeles together with Lars Krückeberg and Wolfram Putz. With further offices in Berlin and Shanghai, GRAFT has been commissioned to
design and manage a wide range of projects. GRAFT has won numerous national and international awards and earned international reputation throughout its existence. In 2009 the GRAFT founding partners co-founded Solarkiosk AG together with Andreas Spiess, which affiliate companies are
incorporated in ten countries worldwide today. With GRAFT Brandlab Thomas Willemeit, Wolfram Putz, and
Lars Krückeberg established a branding agency together with Linda Stannieder in 2014. The agency operates at the interface of architecture, design, and branding. Since 2015 GRAFT offers sustainable housing systems in modular design in order to quickly construct accommodations for
refugees. The company called Heimat2 was founded together with three other companies working in project development and communication. Thomas Willemeit, Lars Krückeberg and Wolfram Putz together
with Marianne Birthler curated the German Pavilion in Venice at the Architecture Biennale 2018.

Werner Frosch is a partner at Henning Larsen Architects and managing director of the Munich branch. He is an experienced project manager and project director, and has managed various large-scale projects in Scandinavia and Germany, which are characterized by sustainability above average.
In addition to his daily tasks, Werner Frosch gives numerous lectures, and acts as member of architectural juries. He is committed to convey architecture and the quality in the physical environment. Werner Frosch is chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund Bayern.