About BAR

BAR was founded in 1992 by Antje Buchholz, Jack Burnett-Stuart, Jürgen Patzak-Poor, and Michael Matuschka. BAR’s architecture and research practice has explored three main themes:

Documentation of urban everyday space
Use of models to explore both spatial and conceptual ideas
Redefinition the architect's role through direct involvement in the initiation, financing, and construction of projects

Projects range in scale from the Durchgangsbad (1993), a prototypical passage bathroom for one-room apartments, to strategies for urban infill in towns in Mark Brandenburg (1996). BAR’s activity has focused recently on mixed-use buildings in Berlin (Oderberger Straße 56, 2003-2010, and Schwedter Straße 26, 1999-2002), and on urban research and development projects (City in Conflict, 2003-2004; Building Initiative, 2004-2005).

Oderberger Straße 56 was awarded the 2010 KfW Award "Mut zur Lücke."

BAR’s work has been exhibited at Archilab 2004 in Orléans, at the NAI in Rotterdam in 2006, and in FischGrätenMelkStand, an installation curated by John Bock in the Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, in summer 2010.

BAR’s work has been published extensively in Bauwelt and Archplus.

Members of BAR have taught at SCI-ARC and Woodbury University in Los Angeles, at the TU and FU in Berlin (the latter as part of an urban anthropology seminar), the University of Ulster, Belfast, and the TU, Cottbus.

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