FRAMA Architects BDA is an architectural design and research firm that operates within various cross disciplinary design fields. For more than ten years, FRAMA Architects BDA is working on architectural and urban planning projects that cover a diverse range of schemes and programs of various scales and locations. The firm's committed professional network includes architects, engineers, landscape architects and artists of various intellectual and specialized design expertise. These selected experts are involved in every phase of the design and building process. Trough an intense collaboration within this network, FRAMA Architects always strives to realize individual, innovative and yet sustainable and efficient solutions that oftentimes incorporate the use of up-to-date technology and knowledge.
The belief that architecture is much more than a service and that architectural quality is able to deliver a surplus value that is capable of elevating how we experience and enjoy our life, is reflected in the way FRAMA Architects are designing buildings for a wide variety of clients, locations and uses, intelligently responding to the specifics of their site, brief and needs of the possible users.
FRAMA Architects render themselves independent of any design boundaries or methods: each encountered assignment is different and is treated as such. The guiding force behind their work follows a conceptually driven design approach leading to a comprehensive design strategy. Their design work is therefore a resultant of intense project oriented investigations that is also reflected in the active engagement of teaching, research and collaborating with different architecture schools. This integrated design attitude allows for the architecture to develop from the different parameters set by the client, site, location and the specific requirements of any given assignment. The way FRAMA Architects approach a task is, that possible problems are not seen as obstacles but rather chances and opportunities to develop innovative, yet tangible solutions for the world we would like to live in. FRAMA, the name of the office, is an abbreviation of "fresh rapid and miraculous architecture" as an ironic reflexion of what the office is trying to achive.
Since its founding, the office of FRAMA Architects has been featured in various international book and journal publications and has also gained reputation through a number of exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Mark Mueckenheim is founder and principal of FRAMA Architects BDA in Duesseldorf Germany and the co-author of the book "Inspiration – Contemporary Design Method in Architecture" which will be released by BIS Publishers Amsterdam in 2011.
He has lectured and acted as a guest critic at numerous international institutions, including The Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association in London England, The Angewandte Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, the University of Houston in Texas and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc) in Los Angeles, among many others. Since 2001, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Architectural Design in Germany. Among other schools, he taught for more than six years at the RWTH Aachen, one of Germany's leading universities. Since 2009, he is appointed as a guest professor for architectural design at the Technical University Munich.
Educated in Germany, the US and England, sponsored by a Fulbright scholarship and a DAAD grand, Mark Mückenheim received his Master of Architecture from Parsons School of Design, New York and his Graduate Diploma in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Before establishing his own architecture practice in 2001, he worked and collaborated with different architecture firms in Germany, USA and England. During this time, he gained extensive professional experience through working on a number of projects, among them the celebrated Kunsthaus in Graz (with SpacelabUK Peter Cook & Colin Fournier - London) and Scott Free, a film production company in Los Angeles for the directors Ridley and Tony Scott (with Barton Myers and Associates - Los Angeles).
Mark Mückenheims diverse portfolio ranges from concrete architectural projects of different scales and complexity to "speculations" – architectural visions that cross the boundaries of the field, informing the design potential of his office. He received the highly regarded German Young Architect's Design Award, Förderpreis NRW and the MACEF Design Award in Milan and was listed among the "top 10 under 40" German architects by the interactive architecture magazine NIB in Rome. His projects have been featured in various international books and journals, recent publications include participation in the books "Architectural Model - lead to design" and "Mobile Architecture" by DAMDI Architecture Publishing Co. Korea, "Future Architecture" a book publication by Linksbooks Barcelona and "Concept Architecture" by Rihan, Hong Kong. His work has also gained a wide reputation through a number of exhibitions in Germany and abroad most recently the house of architecture in Lille – France, the German Architecture center in Berlin and the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Collaborators and project partners:
Relja Arnautovic, Juliane Demel, Marc Frohn, Andres Fritzen, Neil Henk, Niels Jonkhans, Sandra Kauls, Omar Mansour, Mathis Osterhage, Stefan Rinnebach, Carolin Risselmann, Mario Rojas, Stefan Sous, Frank Zeising, 03Muenchen urban planning Munich, club L94 landscape architects, Peter Drecker landscape architects,Grontmij structural engineers, GTL landscape architects, rmp landscape architects, Visual Department communication and graphic designers
Consultants:
Arup, Fuehrer, Kosch, Juerges structural engineers Aachen, Grontmij structural engineers, Peutz acoustical engineers Nijmwegen, Ingenieurbüro Liebkies structural engineer, HL_Technik technical engineers, Winter Ingenieure technical engineers, Integralingenieure technical engineers, Nina Nicolaisen exhibition design, Heinke Haberland artist, TEN Trümper-Erpenbach-Nordhausen GmbH technical engineers, knp.bauphysik technical engineers, Club L94 landscape architects, GTL landscape architects, Peter Drecker landscape architects, Gunther Fischer landscape architect, Greenbox landscape architects, Geo-Consult engineers, Peutz Consult engineers, Ingenieurbüro Günter engineers, ÖbVI Blinken und Töpfer land surveyors, Mareike Foecking photographer
Current and former Staff:
Melanie Buschbell, Rafael Drzymalla, Suat Eriz, Sascha Glasl, Julia Gross, Inara Jaunzeme, Melanie Klaehn, Marcia Krieger, Carina Kurzhals, Monika Lottritz, Takeshi Ogura, Mirjam Patz, Sima Rusom, Andrea Schmeiing, Denise Stella, Moritz Schwarz, Kerstin Tulke, Vasilena R. Vassilev
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FRAMA Architekten BDA
Mark Mückenheim
Konkordiastrasse 61
40219 Düsseldorf
Germany / Deutschland
T. +49 (0)211. 876 67 61
T. +49 (0) 211-3102750
F. +49 (0)211 876 67 62
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Inhaber und inhaltlich Verantwortlicher gemäß § 10 Abs. 3 MDStV:
Mark Mückenheim M.Arch. (USA) Dipl.Arch. (the Bartlett) Architekt AKNW BDA
Mark Mückenheim ist Mitglied der Architektenkammer Nordrhein-Westfalen (AKNW), Zollhof 1, 40221 Düsseldorf. Die Berechtigung zur Führung der Berufsbezeichnung Architekt ergibt sich aus der Eintragung in die Architektenliste der Architektenkammer Nordrhein-Westfalen (AKNW) unter der Nummer A34968. Mark Mückenheim unterliegt den berufsrechtlichen Regelungen des Nordrhein-Westfälischen Architektengesetzes. Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie bei der zuständigen Architektenkammer Nordrhein-Westfalen ( http://www.aknw.de/ ).
Mark Mückenheim ist Mitglied des Bundes Deutscher Architekten BDA (Mitgliedsnummer 3DÜ01546). Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie beim Bund Deutscher Architekten ( http://www.bda-architekten.de/ ).
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