German Embassy Tel Aviv, Residence, Competition 1st Prize

German Embassy Tel Aviv, Residence, Competition 1st Prize

Studierendenhaus TU Braunschweig, 2023

Studierendenhaus TU Braunschweig, 2023

Fellows Pavilion - American Academy in Berlin, 2014

Fellows Pavilion - American Academy in Berlin, 2014

Grande Maxxi, Rome 2022

Grande Maxxi, Rome 2022

sunsight to sunclipse, Villa Massimo, Rome 2021

sunsight to sunclipse, Villa Massimo, Rome 2021

Loom Hyperbolic, Marrakech 2012

Loom Hyperbolic, Marrakech 2012

Space Pockets, Berlin 2019

Space Pockets, Berlin 2019

Notes on Fortnightism (2020), with Carson Chan

Notes on Fortnightism (2020), with Carson Chan

Una Tenda per due Giardini, German Embassy in Rome, 2021

Una Tenda per due Giardini, German Embassy in Rome, 2021

Small Bridge in Gundelsheim, Bavaria, Competition 2023, 1st Prize

Small Bridge in Gundelsheim, Bavaria, Competition 2023, 1st Prize

Tent on Cuverville Island, 2017 Antarctic Biennale

Tent on Cuverville Island, 2017 Antarctic Biennale

...and it came to pass, not to stay, Rome 2021

...and it came to pass, not to stay, Rome 2021

Thicket, Berlin 2014

Thicket, Berlin 2014

Roanoke Point, Long Island NY, 2018

Roanoke Point, Long Island NY, 2018

Revitalizing Calverton, Long Island, 2018

Revitalizing Calverton, Long Island, 2018

Opaion, 2021 with Katharina Pelosi

Opaion, 2021 with Katharina Pelosi

Talus - Berlin Teufelsberg, IAD, TU Braunschweig 2019

Talus - Berlin Teufelsberg, IAD, TU Braunschweig 2019

The Local Vernacular, Berlin 2016

The Local Vernacular, Berlin 2016

Isa Genzken, Biennale Di Venezia, 2015

Isa Genzken, Biennale Di Venezia, 2015

Windmill Luminaire, Berlin 2013

Windmill Luminaire, Berlin 2013

Frames, 2010 - 2018

Frames, 2010 - 2018

Our project for the TU Braunschweig with Max Hacke is now one of the 7 finalists for the 2024 EU Mies Award. The recognition goes out to the whole team who made it possible. Special thanks to knippershelbig Berlin, iwb and Cornils GmbH and to an amazing client TU Braunschweig.   Fingers crossed until the final announcement in April 2024.
Photo by Iwan Baan

There is some incredibly exciting news. Together with Max Hacke, we have won the 2024 DAM Prize. The student house for the TU Braunschweig was selected from 104 projects in Germany and will be exhibited in the German Architecture Museum for the next few months.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

At -8 °C, our team member Felix Schuschan and his friends took the opportunity to set up our frozen tent, originally designed for the 2017 Antarctic Biennale, in front of our Berlin Studio. Thanks for the vision and the effort.

What an honor! Our project for the TU Braunschweig has been awarded the German Architecture Prize. The state prize is awarded every two years for “outstanding achievements in building culture” and is considered the most important award for architects in Germany.

“The TU Braunschweig Study Pavilion looks so light as a feather that you could almost believe it is not in Germany, where every architectural form in this country seems to become increasingly clunky with each passing year” The Jury
 
We are honored to have received the 2023 BDA Preis Niedersachsen for our Study Pavilion. Photo by Iwan Baan

Our project for the TU Braunschweig with Max Hacke is nominated for the 2024 EU Mies Award. The recognition goes out to the whole team who made it possible. Special thanks to knippershelbig Berlin, iwb and Cornils GmbH and to an amazing client TU Braunschweig.   Fingers crossed until the final announcement in 2024.

On November 13th Gustav Düsing is giving a public lecture about his work at the TU Munich as part of the lecture series Montagsreihe.

On November 8th Gustav Düsing is giving a public lecture about his work at the University of Stuttgart as part of the Novemberreihe Lecture Series organized by the IRGE, the BDA Baden-Württemberg and the Sto-Stiftung.

Our winning scheme for the German Embassy in Tel Aviv is on the cover of Wettbewerb Aktuell. Thanks to the whole team for your work and effort.

We are pleased to announce that our project for TU Braunschweig has been shortlisted for the DAM Prize 2024. The annual prize is one of the most prestigious awards in Germany and is presented by the Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt a.M.
Photo by Iwan Baan

Our project for the TU Braunschweig is on the cover of the Deutsches Architektenblatt, published by the German Chamber of Architects. The author Frank Maier-Solgk points out the unique process from which the project emerged: an internal design competition between the faculty of the TU Braunschweig. To the article

another publication in the DBZ (Deutsche Bauzeitschrift). The author Ina Lülfsmann describes very nicely that our project wants to be much more than a desk for studying, but rather a new kind of social space for student culture. To the article

Our project for the TU Braunschweig has been featured in the current issue of Bauwelt. The Author Anna Raischl especially points out the innovative and fully demountable steel – wood hybrid structure. To the article

We are excited to share the news that together with FAKT-Office for Architecture we are selected to be one of six teams to develop strategies for the future of the Architecture School in Siegen as part of the 2023 Siegen Summer School.
You can apply now at Architektur Uni Siegen.
 
 

We are pleased about the 1st prize in the design competition for the residence of the German Embassy Tel Aviv / Israel!
Based on our design strategy “Eco-Minimalism” – the questioning of material- and energy-intensive comfort claims – the existing building of the residence (instead of a demolition and a new construction), is covered only with an ultra-light and changeable umbrella in steel-wood hybrid construction. For the preservation and optimization of the existing building, wolff:architekten bring their decades of experience in the fields of “building on” and “building in the existing”.
The jury particularly praised the way EMMERIK garden design and research dealt with the existing garden, preserving the existing vegetation and, where necessary, carefully adapting it to the local climatic conditions.

On Wednesday 14th of June Gustav Düsing will give a talk about his work on temporary structures as part of the lecture series Studio Talks  at BTU Cottbus. The talk will be in conversation with the architect Sebastian Hoffmann of hoffmannfontana architekturen, Zürich.

Our project for the TU Braunschweig has been covered on Baunetz. Thanks to Maximilian Hinz for the great article and Leonhard Clemens for the beautiful cover shot.

On Wednesday 6th of June Gustav Düsing is giving a lecture about his recent projects at the Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Architektur organized by Prof. Winston Hampel

Together with Knippers-Helbig and the landscape architects of Studio-Erde we won a competition to design a new bridge in Gundelsheim, Bavaria. The project aims to create a new public space connecting the street level with the river.

Together with Fakt-Office for Architecture we taught a design studio for the winter semester 22/23 at MSA. Thanks to the students and faculty for making it possible.

Thanks so much for the beautiful PLAT 11: Soft – Co-Editors: Jane van Velden + Paul DeFazio of  Rice Architecture with a conversation between philosopher Dehlia Hannah  and Gustav Düsing about Antarctica as a project, energy as a building material and blackouts as future scenarios.

In todays Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung the architectural critic Niklas Maak wrote about our soon to open Studierendenhaus TU Braunschweig. Apart from its unique program Niklas Maak pointed out the demountable structure as a way to make buildings last way beyond their conventional life span. In a different form in a different place, buildings like ours can be demounted and reassembled to serve a new purpose. A house for tomorrow and for all days. With Max Hacke.
Photos by Leonhard Clemens.

In the spring semester of 2022 Gustav Düsing will teach a design studio at Cornell AAP alongside Val Warke and Daniele Durante as part of the Cornell in Rome Program.