Director, Franken Architects
Bernhard Franken completed his studies in 1996 as Dipl.-Ing. Architect at the TU Darmstadt and was Artist in Residence at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt, Institute for New Media. He worked with ABB Architekten, Frankfurt for 5 years as a free-lancer and from 2000-2002 in a joint venture. In 2002 he founded Franken Architekten. From 2010-2013, he was professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Science for Digital Design. Before he was teaching as assistant professor at TU Darmstadt and visiting professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, the University of Kassel and the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design.
He is internationally known since the “Bubble”, one of the first build “Blobmaster” buildings. Since 1998 he realized projects with a narrative design approach in the fields of corporate architecture, brandspaces, hotel, gastronomy, residential buildings, office buildings, retail outlets, and urban design projects. His projects have been widely published and he was winning 70 awards. Professor Bernhard was featured in various exhibitions and was giving over 200 lectures worldwide.
