Sabine Müller, new professor in urbanism
Sabine Müller, architect and urban designer, the co-funder and principal of SMAQ in Berlin, joined AHO in August. Before establishing SMAQ she worked for West 8 (Rotterdam) and Asymptote (New York).
"Sabine Muller has an interesting urban architecture practice, she is a very competent academic and is experienced in design-based education at several international universities", said Marianne Skjulhaug, Head of AHO’s Institute of landscape and urbanism.
"The U&L institute strives for an energetic academic environment, composed of people interested in working across the disciplines. Müller is oriented towards cooperation, international networking, bridging architecture and landscape architecture.
Sabine is an inspiration to students and has a wonderful gift for opening up and enlarging discussions".
A highway named Rio
In the spring semester of 2016, Müller takes on a project in Mexico. The course A Motorway named Rio, is open to architecture and landscape architecture students and will investigate the transformation of this motorway, built in the riverbed of a dry river – a decision now challenged by climate change, heavy rains, frequent flooding and a growing city.
"Rethinking the key infrastructure could trigger an environmentally and socially just development of this urban habitat. The students will partake in a collaborative workshop and group work in San Luis Potosí, Mexico", said Müller.
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Former research and teaching
Sabine Müller’s research and teaching focuses on urban design at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and landscape, while acknowledging infrastructure, ecology and the everyday processes of inhabitation as drivers of the urban environment.
Academic background
Müller taught at Delft University of Technology and at Bauhaus Dessau. She was assistant professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and visiting critic at Cornell University.
Projects and competitions
With SMAQ Sabine Müller has conducted urban research projects as well as architectural, landscape, and urban projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. SMAQ has won numerous competitions in Germany and Europe. Its master plans for Wolfsburg’s new residential area (Germany), Rostock’s historical center (Germany), Grorud Senter (Oslo, Norway), as well as a residential complex in Hanover (Germany) are in development. SMAQ received an AR Emerging Architecture Award for its public bath in Stuttgart and the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction for its masterplan Xeritown in Dubai. The studio has exhibited at the architecture biennials in Rotterdam and Venice. Its speculative project “X-Palm” was published as Charter of Dubai (Jovis, 2012).
Education
Müller has a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (New York) and received her Dipl.-Ing. in Architecture from the University of Kassel (Germany).
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