Delugan Meissl Associated Architects

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects – DMAA for short – is a Vienna-based architectural office, which was founded by Elke Delugan-Meissl and Roman Delugan as Delugan Meissl ZT GmbH in 1993. Dietmar Feistel and Martin Josst have been partners since 2004. The management team is completed by the associated partners Sebastian Brunke and Bernd Heger and the project partner Philip Beckmann.

The office works on a broad range of building projects in Europe, North America and Asia, many of which have been preceded by success in an architectural competition.

The origins of the office can be traced back to a series of large residential buildings in Vienna, with which Delugan Meissl made a name for themselves at an early stage through their use of a powerful and autonomous formal language.

“The ultimate aim of the design process is to experience that magical moment, to discover that point in the imagination or that basic idea from which everything else springs.”[3] (Roman Delugan)

The design process, which is based on an intuitive approach but developed with systematic precision, pays special attention to the functional integration [4] and the spatial incorporation of the building into the surrounding urban or landscape context.[5]

Against the background of a continuous examination of the subject of housing, the Austrian Contribution to the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 2016, which was curated by Elke Delugan-Meissl under the title “Places for People”, was devoted to the movement of refugees towards Europe, which was then at its height, and the associated challenge of how to offer people dignified accommodation at very short notice.

The architects, who were honored with the Grand Austrian State Prize in 2015, are "among Austria's most internationally successful architects" who are distinguished by their "multi-layered, partly radical work in the field of architecture" according to the Minister of Culture, Dr. Josef Ostermayer.[6]

Festspielhaus (Tyrolean Festival House) in Erl by DMAA

• Offshore Borkum, Germany, 2020
• Taiyuan Botanical Garden, China, 2020
• Taiyuan Zoo Panda House, China, 2020
• Campus Tower, Hamburg, Germany, 2019
• Deschamps-Braly Clinic of Plastic & Craniofacial Surgery, San Francisco, USA, 2019[7]
• Hyundai Motorstudio, Goyang, South Korea, 2017
• MIBA Forum Building, Austria, 2017[8]
• University Campus Krems, Austria, 2016
• Geriatric Centre Donaustadt, Austria, 2014
• Tourist Info, Vienna, Austria, 2014
• Casa Invisibile, Slovenia, 2013[9]
• Festival Hall Erl, Austria, 2012[10]
• EYE Film Institute Netherlands, The Netherlands, 2011
• FH Campus Wien, Austria, 2009
• Porsche Museum, Germany, 2008
• Delugan-Meissl-Tower, Austria, 2005[11]
• City Lofts Wienerberg, Vienna, 2004
• House Ray 1, Austria, 2003
• Beam Donaucity, Austria, 1998

In order to do justice to the special responsibility of architecture, DMAA has established its own online magazine entitled “Questions and Architecture”, which offers a profound investigative-journalistic and cultural-scientific insight into general developments and current challenges, illustrated with references to some of the office's current projects.

• Red Dot Design Award (TEELA Zumtobel Office),[12] 2019
• iF Design Award (TEELA Zumtobel Office),[13] 2019
• iF Design Award (Tourist Info Vienna), 2016
• Grand Austrian State Prize for Elke Delugan-Meissl and Roman Delugan, 2015
• Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award (Festival Hall Erl),[14] 2015
• Silver Medal of the City of Vienna for Elke Delugan-Meissl and Roman Delugan, 2015
• iF Design Award (Tendo), 2015
• Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award (EYE Film Institute Amsterdam), 2013
• Red Dot Design Award (IYON Led spotlight series), 2012
• Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award (Porsche Museum), 2009
• WALLPAPER* Award in association with Jaguar (Porsche Museum), 2008
• Architecture Prize of the City of Vienna (High-Rise Wienerberg), 2006
• German Prize for Reconstruction (Haus Ray1), 2004
• Client Prize (Townhouse Wimbergergasse), 2002

• Places for People, Austrian Pavilion, Biennale Architettura di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2016 (Elke Delugan-Meissl as Curator)
• Housing in Vienna, Touring Exhibition: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., 2013–2014 (Group Exhibition)
• inTENSE repose, Touring Exhibition: Vienna, Cologne, Berlin, Zurich, New York, et al. 2006–2007 (Solo Exhibition)
• State of Flux, Touring Exhibition: Merano 2002, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Berlin, et al. 2006 (Solo Exhibition)
• Deep Surface, 1st International Architectural Biennale, Beijing, China, 2004 (Group Exhibition)

• ZOOM & 360°, ed. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and Liquid Frontiers, Vienna, 2018
• Design Peak 08 Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Seoul, 2011, ISBN 978-89-96290490
• VOL. 1. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, ed. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Vienna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502979-0-4
• Porsche Museum. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. HG Merz, ed. Springer Verlag, Vienna, 2009, ISBN 978-3-211-99736-9
• Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. Realized projects. Current projects. Competitions, ed. Caroline Klein, Cologne, 2006, ISBN 978-3-937718-87-3
• inTENSE repose. Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, ed. Kristin Feireiss, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-937093-63-X
• Delugan Meissl 2. Concepts. Projects. Buildings. (2 volumes.), ed. Robert Temel, Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm, Basel, 2001, ISBN 3-7643-6557-9

• Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
• "Questions And Architecture", Online-Magazine hosted by DMAA