GRAFT

Our design process is evidence-based and human-centered. Our approach stems from scenography and movement rather than tectonics. In this way, we are able to create dynamic, flexible architecture that allows multiple readings.

— GRAFT

GRAFT is conceived as a studio for architecture, urban planning, design, music and the pursuit of happiness. Since its establishment 1998 in Los Angeles, it has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects across multiple disciplines and in numerous locations. Further offices followed in Berlin in 2001 and Beijing in 2004.

We believe in the power of architecture as a tool, best employed not for its own sake, but to represent ambiguous and diverse identities.

At GRAFT, our collective professional experience covers a wide range of building types around the world. We manage construction projects at every stage. This includes everything from feasibility studies and site supervision to documentation, urban design, detailing and prototyping. While the company's primary focus is architecture and the built environment, our work often extends to consultancy, exhibitions, and product design.

GRAFTING IDENTITIES

Architecture is a cultural technique. It is never self-contained, nor finite; it is part of a complex cultural cycle in service of society as a whole. As a result, architecture is always a representation of society rather than an autonomous discipline. The importance of identity within designed space, from individual to community, from city to region, cannot be underestimated. At a time when there is a blurring of boundaries between the real and the virtual, urban and rural, and local and global, our built environment plays a fundamental role in defining identity.

GRAFT is responding to the challenges of the future with an optimistic attitude towards multiple and simultaneous identities, which enables a higher degree of complexity. There is no such thing as one single truth, and we believe that hybridization enhances the qualities of its constituent characteristics.

TEAM

Our work features designs for projects in the fields of residential and commercial architecture, health care, mobility, digitization, work, branding, master planning and urban culture, all of which graft different realities into new hybrids.

With projects in more than 30 countries, our work as well as our employees are truly international. Our team of about 90 architects, interior designers, communication experts and administrative staff works from offices in Berlin, Los Angeles and Beijing.

RECOGNITION

Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit have held several guest professorships in the USA, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany and are members of the expert team of the Zukunftsinstitut think tank. They hold lectures worldwide bringing insights into future-relevant topics and their architectural approach.

GRAFT has won numerous international awards. Our projects have been displayed in exhibitions around the globe.

Studio	GRAFT Invalidenstraße 5 10115 Berlin Germany
Founding Partners	Lars Krückeberg Wolfram Putz Thomas Willemeit
Partner	Sven Fuchs Georg Schmidthals
Contact	Maria Ludewig Sarah John phone +49 (0)30 30645103-28 pr@graftlab.com
www	graftlab.com
Memberships	Aedes Architecture Forum Association of German Architects (BDA Bund Deutscher Architekten) Berlin Chamber of Architects (Architektenkammer Berlin) Building Information Modelling Alliance (BIM Allianz) Functional façade innovation network (Innovationsnetzwerk Funktionsfassade) NAX Network for Architecture Exchange (NAX Netzwerk Architekturexport) Federal Foundation of Baukultur (Stiftung Baukultur) Architecture Prize Berlin e.V (Architekturpreis Berlin e.V.)
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Lynx, Berlin, Germany	GRAFT
Air Taxi Voloport, Prototype, Singapore	GRAFT
BRICKS Berlin Schöneberg, Germany	GRAFT
Eiswerk, Berlin, Germany	GRAFT
Retail Design for Mercedes Benz, Bangkok, Budapest, Heilbronn	GRAFT

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