The diverse and extensive work consists of idiosyncratic houses, extensions, and remarkable interiors, special adaptations, and spatial interventions. It is about why, how, and for what purpose? What are the motivations, backgrounds, and goals? What inspires us and why do we come up with this or that solution? Our buildings are the result of an intensive exploration of the individual needs of our clients, everything that can be called context in the broadest sense, and our unconditional desire to think and plan every task from the beginning with curiosity and joy.
AMUNT – Architects Martenson und Nagel Theissen – was established in 2009 as a collaboration between Björn Martenson, Sonja Nagel, and Jan Theissen with independent offices in Aachen and Stuttgart. They work in the fields of architecture, research, education, and urbanism. AMUNT represents a specific architecture tailored to the needs of each project. Their projects have received numerous national and international awards. Among other accolades, they won the Weißenhof-Architekturförderpreis for young architects in 2010, the Hugo-Häring-Prize in 2011, and the German Architecture Award in 2013. Their project JustK won first prize in the international AR-Award competition in 2011. As part of the exhibition Reduce / Reuse / Recycle, their project Schreber, a renovation and extension of a miner's house, was showcased in the German pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Since then, AMUNT's projects have been published in many publications worldwide, and in 2017, an architectural monograph 2G #75: AMUNT was released in the 2G book series by Walter König Verlag.
Jan Theissen studied industrial design in Saarbrücken and Eindhoven (NL) and graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Saarbrücken in 2000. He further studied architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (New York) in 1999 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where he graduated from the Department of Architecture in 2003. He served as an associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and as a visiting professor at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf and at TU Darmstadt.
The curator of the series is Miroslav Pazdera.