Bernd Schmutz studied architecture and urban planning at the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna and Hamburg where he graduated with distinction in 2003. Until 2015 he worked for eleven years as an office partner with Caruso St John Architects in London where he was responsible for a large range of projects in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland, among others the contemporary arts centre ‘Nottingham Contemporary’, Grade-I-listed ‘Soane’s Museum’ in London as well as the recently completed office building ‘Bremer Landesbank’ and the 38.000 sqm – apartment block ‘Welfenstraße’ on the former grounds of the Paulaner brewery in Munich which is now under construction.
In 2015 he relocated and set up his own office in Berlin and has since worked on projects for housing, offices, exhibition designs, galleries and renovations. Many of these works are transformations within existing building structures and heritage contexts, e.g. the repair and restoration of the national monument site Gut Garkau.
The office enjoys working across different disciplines and all scales in order to provide bespoke and sustainable solutions for every client, from furniture to urban planning. Specific conditions and constraints are seen as an opportunity to deliver tailored designs which mediate with an open-minded approach between beauty, functional needs and costs. While the office has a deep interest to work with careful interventions in the rich context of the city it has also increasingly engaged with projects on the countryside to explore the potential of barns and cottages conceived as simple, flexible and enduring structures between poetics and pragmatism.
With its base in Berlin, Bernd Schmutz Architects is currently working in Germany, UK and Italy on architecture, interior design and research projects. The practice has been following an approach of running design and research in parallel. Bernd Schmutz has been co-leading a diploma studio at Kingston University in London for three years, he was guest professor at Leibniz University in Hannover, at Technical University in Dresden and has recently been appointed as professor for “Bauformenlehre” at Bauhaus-University Weimar. He is regularly invited for juries, lectures and as a guest critic at various universities and institutions in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. He is a registered architect at the Architects Registration Board in the UK, Bayerische Architektenkammer, BDA Bund Deutscher Architekten and Bundesstiftung Baukultur.
Contact:
info@berndschmutz.com
Bernd Schmutz Architekten
Mollstrasse 1
10178 Berlin
M 0049 (0) 162 288 2225
Team present and past:
Linus Hagedorn, Michal Sefranek, Theresa Zöllner, Freddy Vetter, Jakob Stadtmüller, Emanuel Eder, Luis Neuber, Marie Langholz, Samuel Causse, Leon Schade, Paul Stockhausen, Simon Semerak, Malte Neumann, Patricia Gines Madrid, Tamim Arab, Tilmann Uibel, Egor Gaydukov, Maite Raschilla Kausel, Luisa Behrendt, Marta Kazimierczak, Christoph Kuhr, Mathis Bergmann, Jonas Altorfer, Ella Esslinger, Hanna Fokken, David Gripp, Alina Izmaylov, Lukas Keller, Sara Madej, Miroslav Pazdera, Dylan Radcliffe Brown, Jan Schweizer, Bernd Schmutz
Vacancies and applications:
For collaborations and job opportunities please send your application including portfolio, CV, motivation letter and references as a hard copy or PDF to application@berndschmutz.com. Unfortunately we are unable to return hard copies which have been sent by post.
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