TOPOTEK 1

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TOPOTEK 1
Sophienstraße 18
D - 10178 Berlin
T. +49.30.246258-0
[email protected]
www.topotek1.de

TOPOTEK 1
Austrasse 60
CH - 8045 Zurich
T. +41.44.4612091
[email protected]
www.topotek1.de

Profil

Topotek 1 was founded in 1996 by Martin Rein-Cano in Berlin. Since 1999, he has run the studio in equal partnership with Lorenz Dexler. Francesca Venier has been an associate partner of Topotek 1 since 2014 and Carsten Schmidt since 2021. In 2017, Topotek 1 Architektur was founded by Martin Rein-Cano, Lorenz Dexler, Francesca Venier, and Dan Budik.

Topotek 1 is a diverse, lively, and multidisciplinary office composed of a highly qualified international team of architects, landscape architects, and administrative staff. The studio draws upon this wide range of experience during all stages of the design and construction processes, resulting in exceptionally effective design solutions that produce transparent, efficient, and long-term benefits for its clients.

Working at the intersection of the fields of landscape architecture, urbanism, and architecture, Topotek 1 considers itself a traveler that explores the fringe areas of typologies and scales. Each project strives to respond to the given context and programmatic necessities with a compelling concept, extraordinary design quality, and efficient implementation. Some of the studio’s key strategies for maintaining an awareness of and vital link to general contemporary discussions include the hybridization of topics and disciplines; the removal, transmission, and re-imagining of objects and design features from their original context to another; and the design and emplacement of scenographic sequences.

Global movements in society and culture continually redefine a broad spectrum of possibilities in relation to the design and constitution of public space. Driven by its conceptual approach, Topotek 1 considers public spaces to be an expression of visions and of society as a whole. The studio develops design concepts through a critical understanding of extant contemporary realities as well as of cultural and historical references. Through this holistic strategy, Topotek 1 generates solutions that fulfill the modern requirements of variability, communication, and sensuality, creating contemporary spaces for contemporary uses.

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TOPOTEK 1

Name: TOPOTEK 1
Address: Sophienstraße 18, Berlin, Deutschland, D - 10178
Telephone: T. +49.30.246258-0

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Founder and Partners

Martin Rein-Cano, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1967, studied art history at Frankfurt University and landscape architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Karlsruhe.

Lorenz Dexler, born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1968, studied landscape architecture at Hannover Technical University.

Martin Rein-Cano and Lorenz Dexler both teach and lecture at internationally known universities and cultural institutions and participate regularly in competition juries.

Francesca Venier, born in Milan, Italy in 1971, first studied product design, then architecture and urbanism at the Polytechnic University of Milan and at State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. She has been responsible for the project and competition department at Topotek 1 since 2010.

Dan Budik, born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1974, studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and the ETSA Madrid. He worked as project manager in Brussels and Rotterdam for several years. Between 2009 and 2016 he ran his own office in Zurich and taught at ETH Zurich.

Carsten Schmidt, born in Essen, Germany in 1991, first studied political science, Chinese studies, and communications at the University of Tübingen, then landscape architecture and city and regional planning at Cornell University. After working with Cornell University on a Climate-Adaptive Design initiative, he joined Topotek 1 and has been partner since 2021.