Modersohn & Free Life Architects

Entrance building at Potsdamer Platz station

Modersohn & Free Life Architects is a German architecture firm based in Berlin , founded in 1994 by Johannes Modersohn (* 1961) and Antje Freiesleben (* 1965).

Life

Antje Freiesleben studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1985 to 1992 . After a short period of self-employment, she founded the joint architecture office with Johannes Modersohn. From 1998 to 2005 she taught as a research assistant to Alfred Grazioli at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2007 she received a three-month scholarship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (Casa Baldi). Free life has been teaching as a professor for building theory and design at the University of Siegen since 2017 .

Johannes Modersohn studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1982 to 1989 . He then worked in the Hilmer & Sattler office in Berlin until they jointly founded an office . Since 2007 he has held the chair for building construction and design at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern .

Modersohn & Free Life were awarded the Art Prize of the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) , Förderungspreis Baukunst, in 2004.

buildings

1996–2006 regional train station Berlin Potsdamer Platz (as a consortium with Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht)
1998–2000 Lofthaus Melchiorstrasse, Berlin
2000–2003 office building in the Beisheim Center , Berlin
2000–2004 residence in New Bavaria, renovation and new roof construction
2001–2005 Kontorhaus Rosenstrasse, Berlin, renovation and expansion in line with listed buildings
2005–2008 residential building in Choriner Strasse, Berlin-Mitte
2007–2008 Marshallhaus , Berlin, renovation of a 1950s building in accordance with listed buildings
2010–2012 residential and commercial building in Chausseestrasse, Berlin-Mitte
2011–2014 residential buildings on Neue Roßstrasse, Berlin-Mitte
2014–2015 Otto Modersohn Museum Tecklenburg, renovation and conversion of a listed residential building
2016–2018 Lindenallee, Essen, conversion of a high-rise office building into 138 apartments

Competitions

1994 German Library Institute Berlin, 1st prize
1997 Urban planning competition Teerhofinsel, Bremen, 3rd prize
1998 Kalkriese Archaeological Museum, special purchase
2005 Lützowplatz , Berlin, residential and commercial building complex, 1st prize
2007 Transparent Dairy, Münchehofe, 3rd prize
2008 Tucherpark, Munich, office and residential building, 2nd prize
2013 New construction of a residential complex at Bahnhofstrasse 37/38 Cottbus, 4th place
2015 Huronseestraße, Berlin-Lichtenberg, 2nd place
2016 Realization competition Lincoln Siedlung Darmstadt, 3rd prize
2018 Wall peninsula Lübeck, urban development and open space planning realization competition, 2nd prize

Awards

2018 “Best Architect 19” award for residential building in Melzow
2018 Houses of the year 2018 - The best single-family houses, recognition for the house in Melzow

2018 “Best Architect 18” award for Haus Bad Saarow and for the Christ Church in Bruchhof-Sanddorf
2017 “Best Architect 17” in gold, award for house in New Brunswick, Canada
2015 Recognition of the Wüstenrot Foundation “Church Buildings of the Future” with Bayer Uhrig, Kaiserslautern for the Christ Church in Bruchhof-Sanddorf
2013 “Best Architect 14” award for the residential buildings Choriner Strasse, Chausseestrasse and Haus S.
2008 “Best Architect 08” award in gold
2007 Brandenburg Architecture Prize
2004 Berlin Art Prize, Baukunst Prize, Academy of the Arts
2004 Architecture Prize from the Reiners Foundation

literature

Architettura realistica / Realistic architecture, Scritti teorici / For a binding method - II - Theoretical writings, a cura di , ed. by Cinizia Simioni and Alessando Tognon, Florence 2012.
Tobias Zepter: The life of things. Modersohn & Free Life Architects , Ostfildern 2009.
Antje Freiesleben: Alfred Grazioli: The thought space, methodology of an architectural design theory , Berlin 2005.
Antje Free Life: Horizons - Orizzonti , exhibition cat. Villa Massimo, Rome 2008.
Antje Freiesleben, Johannes Modersohn and Katrin von Maltzahn : Hybrid , exhib.-cat. Architecture Gallery - werkraum, Berlin 2008.