Marc Koehler Architects

Profile

Marc Koehler Architects is an international design agency, founded in 2005 and operated by 4 associates and a multidisciplinary team of 20 highly skilled architects and engineers. MKA offers an integrated and all-round design service, scoping from concept to execution design and operating in product & interior design and architecture & urban design.

MKA makes meaningful spaces and products that reflect new ways of co-living and a explores a socially responsible way of making buildings. ‘We try to create valuable connections between buildings and their environment, the culture of its users and the latest technical possibilities. We aim to improve people lives by giving special attention to details in everyday situations and turning them into unique moments, using simple means’. Architecture is thus not a luxury product but a creative mindset that can be applied to any spatial scale’.

Currently, MKA is involved in the design of ecological dune houses, experimental collective housing projects, urban design studies for self-made cities and several community buildings such as the University of Gent and the Library of Antwerp Edegem. MKA is also initiator of Superlofts; a growing international network of building communities that share ideas and inspiration on self-made housing and cooperative development.


Biography

Marc Koehler
Marc Koehler was born in the Northern Dutch town of Naarden in 1977 to parents of Dutch-Portuguese heritage. He studied Engineering at the Amsterdam School of Technology, Urbanism at the Technical University of Lisbon and Architecture at the Technical University of Delft, where he completed a Masters of Architecture (Honors) in 2003.