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Dan Budik, Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler and Carsten Schmidt
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Topotek 1 was founded in 1996 by Martin Rein-Cano in Berlin. Since 1999, he has run the studio in equal partnership with Lorenz Dexler. Carsten Schmidt has been an associate partner of Topotek 1 since 2021. In 2017, Topotek 1 Architektur was founded by Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler and Dan Budik.
Topotek 1 is a diverse, lively, and multidisciplinary office composed of a highly qualified international team of architects, landscape architects, and administrative staff. The studio draws upon this wide range of experience during all stages of the design and construction processes, resulting in exceptionally effective design solutions that produce transparent, efficient, and long-term benefits for its clients.
Working at the intersection of the fields of landscape architecture, urbanism, and architecture, Topotek 1 considers itself a traveller that explores the fringe areas of typologies and scales. Each project strives to respond to the given context and programmatic necessities with a compelling concept, extraordinary design quality, and efficient implementation. Some of the studio's key strategies for maintaining an awareness of and vital link to general contemporary discussions include the hybridization of topics and disciplines; the removal, transmission, and re-imagining of objects and design features from their original context to another; and the design and emplacement of scenographic sequences.
Global movements in society and culture continually redefine a broad spectrum of possibilities in relation to the design and constitution of public space. Driven by its conceptual approach, Topotek 1 considers public spaces to be an expression of visions and of society as a whole. The studio develops design concepts through a critical understanding of extant contemporary realities as well as of cultural and historical references. Through this holistic strategy, Topotek 1 generates solutions that fulfill the modern requirements of variability, communication, and sensuality, creating contemporary spaces for contemporary uses.
Biography
Topotek 1 Partners
Martin Rein-Cano
Martin Rein-Cano was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He studied Art History at Frankfurt University and Landscape Architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He trained in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco.
In 1996 he founded Topotek 1. Martin Rein-Cano has been appointed as a guest professor in Europe and North America. He frequently lectures at internationally renowned universities and cultural institutions and regularly participates in competition juries.
Lorenz Dexler
Lorenz Dexler was born in Darmstadt in 1968. He studied landscape architecture at Hannover Technical University. After working at the office of Prof. Günther Nagel in Hannover and at Wehberg Eppinger Schmittke in Hamburg, he began his collaboration with Topotek 1 in 1996. In 1999, Dexler became a managing partner of the studio. He lectures at a diversity of schools and institutions, and frequently participates in international design juries.
Dan Budik
Born 1974 in Zurich. Studied and graduated in Architecture at the ETH in Zurich and at ETSAM in Madrid. Architect for Maxwan Architecture and Urbanism in Rotterdam (2000-2001). Between 2002 and 2006 he worked as a project leader at Xaveer De Geyter Architecten in Brussels for several international big scale projects.
In 2008 he founded his own office ‘Bureau Dan Budik’ in Zurich and was teaching for several years as a lecturer at the ETH Zürich. Today he is a partner of Topotek 1 Architektur and leads the studio in Zurich, Switzerland.
Carsten Schmidt
Carsten was born in 1991 in Essen, Germany. He received his Bachelor of Political Science and Chinese Studies and his Bachelor of Communication from the University of Tübingen in 2015 and graduated from Cornell University with a Masters of Landscape Architecture and a Master of City and Regional Planning a short while after. After working with Cornell University on a Climate-Adaptive Design initiative supporting local Hudson River Communities he joined Topotek 1, quickly growing through the ranks of landscape architect and senior architect to project manager. Today, he is responsible for a range of international and local project that range from small feasibility studies to large scale urban developments. Carsten has been partner at Topotek 1 since 2021, and currently leads the Riyadh office.
Other locations:
TOPOTEK 1
Architektur GmbH
Pfingstweidstrasse 6
CH - 8005 Zurich
T. +41.44.4612091
Dan Budik, Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler and Carsten Schmidt
Profile
Topotek 1 was founded in 1996 by Martin Rein-Cano in Berlin. Since 1999, he has run the studio in equal partnership with Lorenz Dexler. Carsten Schmidt has been an associate partner of Topotek 1 since 2021. In 2017, Topotek 1 Architektur was founded by Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler and Dan Budik.
Topotek 1 is a diverse, lively, and multidisciplinary office composed of a highly qualified international team of architects, landscape architects, and administrative staff. The studio draws upon this wide range of experience during all stages of the design and construction processes, resulting in exceptionally effective design solutions that produce transparent, efficient, and long-term benefits for its clients.
Working at the intersection of the fields of landscape architecture, urbanism, and architecture, Topotek 1 considers itself a traveller that explores the fringe areas of typologies and scales. Each project strives to respond to the given context and programmatic necessities with a compelling concept, extraordinary design quality, and efficient implementation. Some of the studio's key strategies for maintaining an awareness of and vital link to general contemporary discussions include the hybridization of topics and disciplines; the removal, transmission, and re-imagining of objects and design features from their original context to another; and the design and emplacement of scenographic sequences.
Global movements in society and culture continually redefine a broad spectrum of possibilities in relation to the design and constitution of public space. Driven by its conceptual approach, Topotek 1 considers public spaces to be an expression of visions and of society as a whole. The studio develops design concepts through a critical understanding of extant contemporary realities as well as of cultural and historical references. Through this holistic strategy, Topotek 1 generates solutions that fulfill the modern requirements of variability, communication, and sensuality, creating contemporary spaces for contemporary uses.
Biography
Topotek 1 Partners
Martin Rein-Cano
Martin Rein-Cano was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. He studied Art History at Frankfurt University and Landscape Architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe. He trained in the office of Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz in San Francisco.
In 1996 he founded Topotek 1. Martin Rein-Cano has been appointed as a guest professor in Europe and North America. He frequently lectures at internationally renowned universities and cultural institutions and regularly participates in competition juries.
Lorenz Dexler
Lorenz Dexler was born in Darmstadt in 1968. He studied landscape architecture at Hannover Technical University. After working at the office of Prof. Günther Nagel in Hannover and at Wehberg Eppinger Schmittke in Hamburg, he began his collaboration with Topotek 1 in 1996. In 1999, Dexler became a managing partner of the studio. He lectures at a diversity of schools and institutions, and frequently participates in international design juries.
Dan Budik
Born 1974 in Zurich. Studied and graduated in Architecture at the ETH in Zurich and at ETSAM in Madrid. Architect for Maxwan Architecture and Urbanism in Rotterdam (2000-2001). Between 2002 and 2006 he worked as a project leader at Xaveer De Geyter Architecten in Brussels for several international big scale projects.
In 2008 he founded his own office ‘Bureau Dan Budik’ in Zurich and was teaching for several years as a lecturer at the ETH Zürich. Today he is a partner of Topotek 1 Architektur and leads the studio in Zurich, Switzerland.
Carsten Schmidt
Carsten was born in 1991 in Essen, Germany. He received his Bachelor of Political Science and Chinese Studies and his Bachelor of Communication from the University of Tübingen in 2015 and graduated from Cornell University with a Masters of Landscape Architecture and a Master of City and Regional Planning a short while after. After working with Cornell University on a Climate-Adaptive Design initiative supporting local Hudson River Communities he joined Topotek 1, quickly growing through the ranks of landscape architect and senior architect to project manager. Today, he is responsible for a range of international and local project that range from small feasibility studies to large scale urban developments. Carsten has been partner at Topotek 1 since 2021, and currently leads the Riyadh office.
Other locations:
TOPOTEK 1
Architektur GmbH
Pfingstweidstrasse 6
CH - 8005 Zurich
T. +41.44.4612091
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