Sabine Müller is Professor for Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. She is an architect and urban designer, and principal of SMAQ Architektur und Stadt in Berlin. Before establishing SMAQ she worked with West 8 (Rotterdam) Previously, she was an assistant professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a visiting critic at Cornell University. She received her Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and her Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture from the University of Kassel.
With SMAQ Sabine Müller has won numerous competitions in Germany and Europe. The master plans for Wolfsburg’s Hellwinkel Terraces, Überseeinsel (Bremen), and Dragonerareal (Berlin) are in development. SMAQ received the AR Emerging Architecture Award for its public bath in Stuttgart, the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction for its masterplan for Xeritown in Dubai and the German State Price for Architecture in 2021 for the residential project "Living together" in Hannover. The studio has exhibited at the architecture biennials in Rotterdam and Venice. Sabine Müller's publications include the "Charter of Dubai" (Jovis, 2012), and the monography "Giraffes, Telegraphes and Hero of Alexandria" (Ruby Press, 2016).
Sabine Müller’s research and teaching focuses on urban design at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and landscape, while acknowledging infrastructure, ecology and everyday processes of inhabitation as drivers of the urban environment.
With SMAQ Sabine Müller has won numerous competitions in Germany and Europe. The master plans for Wolfsburg’s Hellwinkel Terraces, Überseeinsel (Bremen), and Dragonerareal (Berlin) are in development. SMAQ received the AR Emerging Architecture Award for its public bath in Stuttgart, the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction for its masterplan for Xeritown in Dubai and the German State Price for Architecture in 2021 for the residential project "Living together" in Hannover. The studio has exhibited at the architecture biennials in Rotterdam and Venice. Sabine Müller's publications include the "Charter of Dubai" (Jovis, 2012), and the monography "Giraffes, Telegraphes and Hero of Alexandria" (Ruby Press, 2016).
Sabine Müller’s research and teaching focuses on urban design at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and landscape, while acknowledging infrastructure, ecology and everyday processes of inhabitation as drivers of the urban environment.
Units/fields
- Architecture and Landscape
- Cities
- Emerging Landscapes and Terretories
- Infrastructure and Landscape
- Landscape Urbanism