Sabine Muller

Sabine Müller is Professor for Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. She is an architect and urban designer, and principal of SMAQ architecture urbanism and research in Berlin. Before establishing SMAQ she worked for West 8 (Rotterdam) and Asymptote (New York). Previously, she taught at the Delft University of Technology and at Bauhaus Dessau. 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 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 Hannover (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 for 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).

Sabine Müller’s research and teaching focuses on urban design at the intersection of architecture, urbanism and landscape, while acknowledging infrastructure, ecology and processes of inhabitations as drivers of the urban environment.