Über SeARCH / Bjarne Mastenbroek i.c.w. CMA
MEHR üBER SEARCH / BJARNE MASTENBROEK I.C.W. CMA
Philosophy
The striking characteristic of Christian Müller Architects is an unusual imaginative flexibility in project-approach. Contents are demerged, exposed and fused again with ease. We allow us to be formed by modern art, literature and travels.
With a pragmatic attitude we push forward our ambition of working on today’s challenging urban and architecture developments. We team up with other architecture firms to deploy knowledge directly. In an experimental way we started to collaborate with other young architecture firms at the end of the 1990s. We aimed to share experience and assemble knowledge among offices of comparable size and ambition. Nowadays the ways of collaboration are multifarious and diverse. We team up with small and large offices, in project lead and/or support, in managing a process or providing a specific design input. This results in innovative forms of collaboration with many advantages for both sides involved.
Christian Müller Architects is liberated from working at an office portfolio. We enjoy concentrating on the work which is divergent in scale and usage. Each project is unique, each process different, each solution provided reflects the style appropriate to the challenge set.
Awards
2009
1st prize competition "New City Hall', Venlo
advisor/concept architect for Kraaijvanger • Urbis
2008
Nomination 'Welstandsprijs 2008'
Esthetic Prize North Brabant
2006
1st prize European tender for a new City Hall, Utrecht
2003
Nomination 'Swiss Art Awards',
Category Best Architect, Bern
2002
1st prize competition '39 high-standard city apartments', Oisterwijk
2002
1st prize competition 'New City Hall', Rotterdam
2001
'Top Talent', Selection of best young architects world-wide, Wallpaper, London
1998
'iF Product Design Award', Hannover, for bookshelf ATLAS
1998
'Bathroom Design Award', Category Best Design of the Year, Utrecht
Teaching and Lectures
2009
Participant 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Parallel Cases
2009
Tutor Summer School, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design
2009
Lecture at Chandigarh College of Architecture, India
2009
Tutor research studio, masterclass ArtEZ Academy Arnhem
2008
Tutor graduation project, Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg
2008
Lecture at Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg
2007
Lecture at ArtEZ Academy, Arnhem
2006
Visiting tutor masterclass at Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg
2002
Invited guest critic at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam
2001
Invited guest critic at Delft University of Technology
1994
Lecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA, USA
1993-1995
Research fellow at Delft University of Technology
1992
Assistant at the ETH in Zürich
Philosophy
The striking characteristic of Christian Müller Architects is an unusual imaginative flexibility in project-approach. Contents are demerged, exposed and fused again with ease. We allow us to be formed by modern art, literature and travels.
With a pragmatic attitude we push forward our ambition of working on today’s challenging urban and architecture developments. We team up with other architecture firms to deploy knowledge directly. In an experimental way we started to collaborate with other young architecture firms at the end of the 1990s. We aimed to share experience and assemble knowledge among offices of comparable size and ambition. Nowadays the ways of collaboration are multifarious and diverse. We team up with small and large offices, in project lead and/or support, in managing a process or providing a specific design input. This results in innovative forms of collaboration with many advantages for both sides involved.
Christian Müller Architects is liberated from working at an office portfolio. We enjoy concentrating on the work which is divergent in scale and usage. Each project is unique, each process different, each solution provided reflects the style appropriate to the challenge set.
Awards
2009
1st prize competition "New City Hall', Venlo
advisor/concept architect for Kraaijvanger • Urbis
2008
Nomination 'Welstandsprijs 2008'
Esthetic Prize North Brabant
2006
1st prize European tender for a new City Hall, Utrecht
2003
Nomination 'Swiss Art Awards',
Category Best Architect, Bern
2002
1st prize competition '39 high-standard city apartments', Oisterwijk
2002
1st prize competition 'New City Hall', Rotterdam
2001
'Top Talent', Selection of best young architects world-wide, Wallpaper, London
1998
'iF Product Design Award', Hannover, for bookshelf ATLAS
1998
'Bathroom Design Award', Category Best Design of the Year, Utrecht
Teaching and Lectures
2009
Participant 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Parallel Cases
2009
Tutor Summer School, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design
2009
Lecture at Chandigarh College of Architecture, India
2009
Tutor research studio, masterclass ArtEZ Academy Arnhem
2008
Tutor graduation project, Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg
2008
Lecture at Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg
2007
Lecture at ArtEZ Academy, Arnhem
2006
Visiting tutor masterclass at Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism, Tilburg
2002
Invited guest critic at the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam
2001
Invited guest critic at Delft University of Technology
1994
Lecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA, USA
1993-1995
Research fellow at Delft University of Technology
1992
Assistant at the ETH in Zürich
MEHR üBER SEARCH / BJARNE MASTENBROEK I.C.W. CMA