Planning and building with Mathis Malchow

Curriculum vitae

• 2009 – present · OOW Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH OOW we design architecture. Managing partner, registered architect, Berlin Chamber of Architects no. 13133.
• 2003 – 2009 · Foster + Partners, London and Berlin Associate Partner.
• 2002 – 2003 · KCAP, Rotterdam Architect.
• 1995 – 2002 · TU Berlin Studied architecture, Diplom under Kees Christiaanse and Matthias Sauerbruch, thesis on Hong Kong (summa cum laude).

What makes the first conversation easier

You do not need to prepare anything you do not already know. The more precisely we can place your project, the more concretely we can tell you how we would help – and whether we are the right practice for it.

• How much floor area is involved? For a fit-out, the area to be fitted out; for a new build or an additional storey, the gross floor area; for a letting project, the lettable area that is to be created. A rough figure is enough.
• What is to be created there? Offices, hospitality, housing, a practice, retail – and for whom: for yourself or for a tenant. Almost everything else follows from the intended use.
• What budget do you have in mind? The figure does not have to be right. It tells us whether floor area, ambition and budget fit together. If they do not, we will say so in the first conversation and not after the design stage.
• Who is building? Are you building for yourself, as a couple, as a family or as a developer? That determines how we set up the planning and who takes which decisions.
• What is already available? Floor plans, sales particulars, a lease, a development plan, expert reports – whatever exists, we will look at it. If nothing exists, that is simply where we begin.