Schweiger Design Competitors

HENN is an interdisciplinary team of architects and engineers with offices in Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Shanghai with more than 75 years of expertise in the fields of office, science, health, industry and culture.

Our approach is the cornerstone of our architectural practice. Based on the values of authenticity, methodology and poetry, it is this approach that elevates our projects around the world to architectural statements. Our buildings are authentic by virtue of their sensitivity to their local environments and their enduring relevance; they are both responsive to and representative of the settings in which they are located. They are also sustainable in the broadest sense of the term. Going far beyond energy and environmental issues, our notion of sustainability encompasses cultural, social and aesthetic values. We think in centuries, not just in decades. Our methodology renders the complex process of designing and constructing a building transparent and makes our decision-making processes clear for all to understand. We collect and scrutinise facts and figures systematically and work constantly to develop our architectural techniques. A ground-breaking example of this approach is 2226, our own head office building in Lustenau. Poetry, too, has its role to play: the poetry of form, of materials, of light, of everything we experience with our senses. We strive for elegance, distilling ideas in search of simplicity, and for timelessness, but even more we strive to reach beneath the surface, to find the poetry in architecture.

GRAFT was established in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit, joined by Sven Fuchs and Georg Schmidthals as partners in 2018. Today, the "hybrid office" has its headquarters, GRAFTLAB, in Berlin and has further locations in Shanghai and Seoul. GRAFT is conceived as a studio for architecture, urban planning, design, music and the pursuit of happiness. Since its establishment, it has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects across multiple disciplines and in numerous locations. Although the company’s core enterprises gravitate around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and “grafting” the creative potential and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in its expansion into the fields of exhibition and product design, art installations and academic projects, as well as in their variety of project locations around the world. If you are interested in working for GRAFT have a look at our open positions on our website: http://graftlab.com/jobs/ To see the imprint & data policy, please click: https://graftlab.com/en/imprint-data-policy