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Felix Minkus
1999-05 Diploma Architecture, TU-Darmstadt
2003 Architecture, TU-Wien
2005-06 Minkus-Architekten, Leipzig
2007-08 PRP Architects, Ash Sakula Architects, London
2009 Minkus Architects, Tokyo

We see architecture as a cultural practice, focusing on space as a medium. We work in all scales: from architectural design to urban planning and installations.

We approach the world as open as possible. Our concepts integrate and respect place / functions / users / constraints / etc. and convert them into a meaningful space. We are aiming for our work to be practical, beautiful, appropriate and free of dogma.

This notion of architecture has some advantages: if you take away or add a part, after we have finished our design, it will still work. It has the ability of adapting to future changes. One could also put it like Donald Keene did, when he reflected on Japanese aesthetics: ”...that the imperfect is the natural condition of nature that underlies all existence.”

We are interested in the simultaneity of thoughts. As our world is accelerating in accumulating of complexity, we see our role in linking some these often diverse aspects. Rather than seeing architecture as an autonomous object, we prefer to create complex references to the world, which hopefully result in meaningful experiences for a multitude of people.

Noriko Minkus
2000 BA Architecture Nihon University
2002 MS Eng. Tokyo University of Science
2003-04 Berger+Parkkinen Architects, Vienna
2005-07 Takenaka Europe GmbH, Dusseldorf
2007-08 Burrell Foley Fischer LLP, London
2009 Minkus Architects, Tokyo

MINKUS Architects is formed by Felix Minkus and Noriko Minkus in 2009 and is based in Tokyo. The office is sister branch of MINKUS Architekten in Leipzig.