M&S Architekten

Who we are - what we do
Since 1995 we have been working as a team of creative and experienced architects on miscellaneous building projects: hotels, industry and domestic buildings as well as urban planning projects rank among our focus.

According to the customers whishes we take care of the classic architecture tasks or of the general planning as “all-inclusive-package”. The teams consisting of architects and consultants are time-tested and specified to the particular building task. This is how we keep our standards high and the costs for the customer low.

In our office in Vienna 20 staff members are taking care of these tasks at the moment. The best ideas establish themselves – we follow our vision: the team is the star. Under the supervision of Christian Mascha, Christian Seethaler and Deirdre Zipp we stand for our motto: good architecture is simple - no matter how much effort it has cost!

Good architecture can be bought.

Our work must speak for itself. Simply and naturally — no matter how much effort it has cost. It is only satisfactory when client and architect both enjoy it!

At M&S the team is the star. The best idea is implemented — not only or always what the boss wants. We are tight-fisted, we are just as careful with our clients' money as with our own. In the long life with a building the important thing is not just the first night, but the long years that follow it. Trust is our most precious capital. We work day by day, year after year to achieve trust through our performance.

The laurels on which we will be able to rest are still growing. Therefore at M&S we take great pains to keep them well watered! We work exclusively for clients who appreciate our principles. For them we go through fire and water!

Forum Schönbrunn
Brilliant living
Messecarree Nord
Science Park Linz
Siemens City Vienna
Terrazón
Residential Garden
Grimm Library 
Chemistry Building
Main Fire Station
C2 
AK plus
Karree St.Marx
Airport  Graz
Tower Vienna
Höchstädtplatz
Steyr
Nationalpark D.
ACI New York
Georg B. Ring
Design Center Linz

2003 - Risk Industrial Building:
Project Presentation: Würth
2001 - 20x3 Projects by young
Austrian architects
2000 - "Current urban planning"
The state of the art / Vienna
Urban Planning
1997 - "The concrete utopia"
Millenniumsworkshop, Vienna
1996 - "Architecture is simple"
Architektur Aktuell 187/188, Vienna
1994 - "Dwelling, event-space"
Modern Times, Zukunfts- und
Kulturwerkstaette/Vienna
1994 - "Is art capable of catching fish"
catalogue, Foto-Gallery/Vienna
1994 - Sculpture studios, catalogue,
Academy for applied arts/Vienna
"No service specialists in tennis"
S.S.H.R.S., catalogue,
Academy for fine arts/Vienna
1993 - "The discovery of the unknown"
1993 - "Stuff-thing, debris-culture"
SOS Aufbau Wohnen, catalogue/Vienna

-Otto Wagner Staedtebau Preis 2004 for Kabelwerk
-Otto Wagner Staedtebau Preis 1998 Acknowledgement
for the BB-Matrix 1998, Austria
-Federal Award for industrial buildings, Austria
-Critics Award "Ten on ten", USA
-Award of the federal minister for scientific
and cultural affairs, Austria 

Competitions
-Forum Schönbrunn, competition 1st prize
-Messecarree Nord, competition, 2nd prize
-Science Park Linz, competition, purchase
-Wohngarten 9, competition, 2nd prize
-Chemie Ersatzgebäude, competition, purchase
-Nationalpark Donau-Auen, competition, 1st prize
-Steyr/Reithoffer-Aigner-Gruende, competition, 1st prize
-Georg Brauchle Ring/Munich, competition,
award for innovative urban planning
-Austrian Cultural Center/New York, competition/
best of 16 of 226 entries
-Prado/Madrid, competition / best of 18 of 482 entries
-Elisabethstrasse/Salzburg, competition 2nd prize
-Reichenhallerstrasse, competition 1st prize
-Design Center/Linz, competition 2nd prize
-Philadelphia/Vienna, competition 1st prize
-Stammersdorf/Vienna, competition 1st prize

2006
"Vom Nutzen der Architektur" - Wiener Nutzbauten, Künstlerhaus Wien
2003
"Housing in Vienna - Architecture for everyone", Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2001
"Austrian contemporary architecture",  Gallery Dessa, Ljubljana/Slovenia
2001
"Austrian contemporary architecture",  K.F.A. Gallery Bratislava, Slovakia
2000
The state of the Art, Vienna
1997
"Sonntagsarchitektur", Center for architecture, Vienna
1997
"Plot architecture", Raum aktueller Kunst, Vienna
1996
"Millenniumworkshop" Center for architecture Vienna, Vienna
1995
"The conquest of space", T.U., Vienna
1995
"80 days Vienna", Messepalast, Vienna
1994
"Architecturesearch", Architektonski Fakultet, Zagreb
1993
"SOS Aufbau Wohnen", Secession, Vienna
1990
"Princess of Harlem", Cornell University, New York
1989
"Marcel Duchamp", Kuenstlerhaus, Salzburg
1988
"Ten on Ten", IAA, New York
1985
"Laying foundations", Stadtkino, Salzburg