Approach
Barkow Leibinger is an American/German architectural practice based in Berlin and New York, founded in 1993 by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger.
Their discursive research-based approach to architecture and design allows Barkow Leibinger’s work to respond to advancing knowledge and technology, locating the practice as an international leader in digital and analogue fabrication techniques. This know-how expands to include new materials and their applications in driving the practice forward, a continuously evolving activity. The office’s focus revolves around a commitment to academic teaching, research and the practice itself — each are autonomous work areas, which simultaneously inform one another. This approach manifests distinctly in each project through the interrelationships within client-architect dialogue, location, aesthetics, and purpose.
Barkow Leibinger’s work is realized over a wide range of scales and building types including building for workplace (industry, office, and master planning), cultural, housing, event spaces, as well as exhibitions and installations in the public realm internationally. Recently completed buildings include the Trumpf Smart Factory in Chicago, the Fellows Pavilion for the American Academy in Berlin, the HAWE Factory Kaufbeuren and the Tour Total office high-rise in Berlin.
Their work was included in the Serpentine Summer House program 2016 in London and was shown in the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017. It was part of the 4th Marrakech Biennale, the 14th and the 11th Architecture Biennale, Venice, and is housed in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt. They have won four National AIA Honor Awards for Architecture and a Global Holcim Innovation Award for sustainability as well as various German architecture awards.
Partners
Frank Barkow
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Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, School of Architecture, USA
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA
Visiting Professor, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Visiting Professor, EPFL École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, USA
Visiting Professor, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany
Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
The Arthur Gensler Visiting Professor of Architecture Cornell University, Ithaca
Unit Master, Architectural Association, London
Visiting Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Rome
Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
Bachelor of Architecture, Montana State University
Born in Kansas City, USA
Regine Leibinger
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Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin, Germany
Member of the Akademie der Künste, Architecture Section
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, School of Architecture, USA
Member of the ’Visiting Committees’, MIT Department of Architecture, Cambridge, USA
Professor for Building Construction and Design, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA
Guest Professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Unit Master, Architectural Association, London, England
Assistant Professor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA
Diploma, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Born in Stuttgart, Germany
Associates
Martina Bauer
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Senior Associate
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
Diploma Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; Erwin-Stephan Scholarship, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany; Gibbins, Bultman & Partner, Hamburg, Germany
Hascher and Jehle Architects and Engineers, Berlin, Germany
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Lehrecke und Lehrecke Architekten, Berlin, Germany
Born in Paderborn, Germany
Heiko Krech
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Project Architect
Since 2008: Associate
Since 1999: Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
2002: Registration Boards of Architect, Berlin (No. D10846)
1998: Diploma, Universität Kaiserslautern
1969: Born in Waiblingen, Germany
Associate
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
Registration Boards of Architect, Berlin (No. D10846)
Diploma, Universität Kaiserslautern
Born in Waiblingen, Germany
Lukas Weder
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Associate
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
Registration Boards of Architect, Berlin (Nr. 10616), Germany
Augustin and Frank; projects et al. Humboldt Universität Institute für Physik, Berlin Adlershof
Scholarship Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft
Diploma, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
With A3-Architekten, Berlin, Germany
Pre-medical, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Klaus Reintjes
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Associate
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
freelance architect | Joeken Reintjes Architekten, Berlin, Germany
Axel Schultes Architekten, Berlin, Germany
Eckert, Negwer, Sommer, Suselbeek, Berlin, Germany
Diploma, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Born in Dorsten, Germany
Tobias Wenz
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Associate
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany
Architekten Schweger Partner Berlin, Germany
Diploma, BTU Cottbus, Germany
Born in Karlsruhe, Germany

Associate
Barkow Leibinger, Berlin (Commercial Management)
PSPC, Berlin
Hochtief, Essen
PSPC, Berlin
Diploma Civil Engineering and Management, Technische Universität Berlin
TishmanSpeyer, Berlin
Born in Hannover
Andreas Hertel (Project Architect)
Nicolai Jasper (Project Architect)
Alexander Lehmann (Project Architect)
Christina Möller (Project Architect)
Ina Reinecke (Project Architect)
Tim Unnebrink (Project Architect)
Sebastian Awick (Team Leader Competition)
Robert Tzscheutschler (Team Leader Competition)
Ulrich Fuchs (Team Leader Facade Planning)
Gerrit Vetter (Team Leader Facade Planning)
Annette Wagner (Team Leader Interior Design)
Antje Steckhan (Team Leader Interior Design)
Arne Löper (Team Leader CAD Systems / BIM Coordination)
Team
Architects
ArrowReto Maria Assisi, Peter Ballman, Johannes Beck, Marie Benaboud, Emma Benintende, Laurenz Berger, Jordan Berta, Jan Blifernez, Christian Busch, Fabian Busse, Deborah Chang, Christian Coburger, Evan Farley, Ana Filipovic, Cecilia Fossati, Filippo de Francesco, Maximilian Goes, Konstantin Greune, Cynthia Grieshofer, Viola Hänsel, Matthias Hiby, Nadja Jeske, Romana Kranzbühler, Philipp Kunze, Carolin Lehnerer, Kseniia Leonovich, Frederic Lilja, Emma Mc Gloin, Zsófia Mester, Aurelia Müggler, Mathaeus Lukas Nierzwicki, Mercedes Quirante Reyes, Claudia Reimann, Marco Ripa di Meana, Kevin Scheurer, Konrad Scholz, Ramona Schwertfeger, Mengchan Shen, Ana Skrebic, Tereza Špindlerová, Volker Steinbrenner, Stephanie Sterker, Bogdan Strugar, Jan Szkarlat, Clémence Touzet, Daniela Voigt, Katharina Volgger, Francesca Zecca, Fabian Ziltz
Model Workshop
ArrowShop Manager: Andreas Moling, Jens Weßel
Reidar Mester
Interns
ArrowSilke Gilles, Dennis Tilke, Antonia Walz
Administration
ArrowAssistant | Secretariat
Antje Großmann, Claudia Hamann, Dörte Hanisch, Heike Michel, Maria Rook
Public Relations
ArrowHead of Communication: Evgenija Mitin
Kira Grimm, Nicole Nuñez, Mirjam Thomann, Katrin Voermanek
Student Employee: Lisa-Maria Fromme