FRAMA Architects BDA is an architectural design and research firm that functions within various cross
disciplinary design fields. For more than ten years, FRAMA Architects BDA is working on architectural
and urban planning projects that cover a diverse range of schemes and programs of various scales and locations.
The firm’s committed professional network includes architects, engineers, landscape architects and
artists of various intellectual and specialized design expertise. These selected experts are involved
in every phase of the design and building process. Trough an intense collaboration within this network,
FRAMA Architects always strives to realize individual, innovative and yet sustainable and efficient solutions
that oftentimes incorporate the use of up-to-date technology and knowledge.
Since its founding by Mark Mückenheim, the firm has worked on a number of award winning
projects that encompass a diverse range of schemes and programs of various scales and locations.
The belief that architecture is much more than a service and that architectural quality is able to deliver
a surplus value that is capable of elevating how we experience and enjoy our life, is reflected in the way
FRAMA Architects are designing buildings for a wide variety of clients, locations and uses, intelligently
responding to the specifics of their site, brief and needs of the possible users.
FRAMA Architects render themselves independent of any design boundaries or methods: each project is
different and is treated as such. The guiding force behind their work follows a conceptually driven design
approach leading to a comprehensive design and problem solving strategy. Their design work is therefore
a resultant of intense project oriented investigations that is also reflected in the active engagement of teaching,
research and collaborating with different architecture schools. This integrated design attitude allows for the
architecture to develop from the different parameters set by the client, site, location and the specific requirements
of any given assignment. The way FRAMA Architects approach a task is, that possible problems are not seen as
obstacles but rather chances and opportunities to develop innovative, yet tangible solutions for the world we would like to live in.
In addition to these methods, the office also applies the latest computer technology and utilizes algorithms, digital routines,
and computer aided fabrication to inform, economize and stimulate the design and building process. Their diverse portfolio
ranges from concrete architectural projects and build work of different scales and complexity to “speculations” – architectural
visions and speculations, that cross the boundaries of the field, informing the design potential of the office.
Since its founding, the office of FRAMA Architects has been featured in various international book and journal publications.
Recent publications include participation in the books "Architectural Model - lead to design" and "Portfolio" by DAMDI
Architecture Publishing Co. Korea, “Future Architecture" a book publication by Linksbooks Barcelona and "Concept Architecture"
by Rihan, Hong Kong. Throughout the last 12 years the work of FRAMA has also gained a continuous reputation through a
number of exhibitions in Germany and abroad most recently the house of architecture in Lille - France, the German
Architecture center in Berlin and the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice. The office is currently engaged in a number
of commissions that are under construction and several invited large scale competition projects.
CV Mark Mueckenheim M.Arch. (USA) Dip.Arch. (the Bartlett - UCL) Architect AKNW BDA:
Mark Mückenheim received his Master of Architecture from Parsons School of Design, New York and his graduate diploma in architecture at the
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, England. Before establishing Urban Environments Architects in 2001 and in 2008 FRAMA
Architects, he worked and collaborated with different architecture firms in Germany, USA and England. He has lectured and taught
as a guest tutor extensively at a number of high ranking international institutions. He was Assistant Professor of Architectural Design at the Universities
of Wuppertal and from 2002 to 2008 at the distinguished RWTH Aachen in Germany. Since 2009 he is appointed as a guest professor for architectural
design at the Technical University Munich. He won numerous international and national prices for his work among them the Arts-Price NRW, the arch+
price 2001, both in Germany and the MACEF design award in Milano Italy, he held a DAAD stipend by the German government from 2000-2001 and he
was a Fulbright fellow from 1997-1998.