Sabine Muller

• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2024). The Collaborative city as urbanistic project, Urbanistic Project The Next Generational Paths: A European Perpective. Quodlibet studio. ISSN 9788822921338. p. 177–177. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2020). City boids : diagramming molecular urbanism. In Zari, Maibritt Pedersen; Connolly, Peter & Southcombe, Mark (Ed.), Ecologies Design : Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism. Routledge. ISSN 9780367234478. p. 111–120. Full text in Research Archive
• Quednau, Andreas & Müller, Sabine (2020). Water as a Primary Building Material of the City as Second Nature. In Wang, Fang & Prominski, Martin (Ed.), Water-Related Urbanization and Locality : Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way. Springer Nature. ISSN 9789811535062. p. 255–281. Full text in Research Archive
• Tuomivaara, Milja; Müller, Sabine & Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika (2020). Transplanting traditional water management techniques into greater Oslo’s urban landscape. SPOOL. ISSN 2215-0897. 7(2), p. 113–122. doi: 10.7480/spool.2020.2.4913. Full text in Research Archive

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• Fetzer, Ellen; Addor, Maurício; Albatici, Rossano; Albertsen, Niels; Andreucci, Maria Beatrice & Apfel, Dorothee [Show all 129 contributors for this article] (2025). Regenerative Landscapes: Designing the Transition. Cuvillier Verlag. ISBN 9783689523084. 364 p. doi: https:/cuvillier.de/en/shop/publications/9281-regenerative-landscapes. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  As President of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) it is my great pleasure to introduce these selected proceedings of the ECLAS Conference 2024, hosted at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. The conference theme, Regenerative Landscapes – Designing the Transition, has underscored the critical role of landscape architecture in navigating the complexities of climate change, biodiversity loss, and societal transformation. We have gathered with almost 300 people in Brussels at a pivotal moment. Our landscapes -both urban and rural- are under unprecedented pressure, with six of nine planetary boundaries already exceeded. This conference provided an opportunity to reimagine landscapes not merely as spaces of adaptation but as active agents of regeneration. The contributions in this volume reflect a shared commitment to fostering landscapes that restore ecological function, enhance social equity, and inspire cultural renewal. Our thematic tracks have explored the diverse facets of regeneration: from energy and mobility landscapes to foodscapes, hidden landscapes of the global value chain, biodiversity regeneration and democratic landscape transformation. Each theme represents a vital component of the transition towards resilient, equitable, and thriving landscapes. The discussions initiated here will be crucial in shaping the future of landscape education, research, and practice. I extend my sincere gratitude to the organising team, our hosts at ULB and CIVA Brussels, and the dedicated researchers, educators, and practitioners contributing to this conference. Further, the conference and these proceedings would not have been possible without the TELOS ERASMUS project and its team. TELOS provided the conceptual framework for designing our call for papers guiding the discourse of this conference. I hope that our 2024 gathering has served as a catalyst for new collaborations and bold ideas, driving the discipline of landscape architecture toward a regenerative future. Dr. Ellen Fetzer ECLAS President 2018-2024 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools.

• Müller, Sabine; Mares, Lourdes Marcela López & Delgado, David Leonardo Campos (2023). A Motorway Named Rio: Can an infrastructure at risk trigger an environmentally and socially just urban transformation? AHO, UASLP Facultad del Hábitat. ISBN 9788254703656. 456 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This book invites readers to re-imagine the future of San Luis Potosi (SLP) and one of its paved streams: the Santiago River. Through scenarios and architectural and landscape projects that result from the international workshop “A motorway called Rio”, the work visualizes a sustainable and socially just city. Within this imaginary, gray infrastructure, as a technological answer to a developmentalist era can no longer be the only strategy to approach the ecological problems that cities currently face. With this in mind, the book is divided in three sections: the first shows the background and analyses, an atlas of regional and urban maps and a toolbox that can be used to intervene the river. The second section presents the design process and resulting projects and the third shows how the projects were exhibited in Oslo and SLP, reflects upon other possible cities and closes with conclusions.

• Gheysen, Maarten; Labastida, Marta; Quintanilla, Miguel Hernandez; Gómez-Escoda, Eulàlia; Müller, Sabine & Leemans, Sophie [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2023). One territory,four questions,one atlas. Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB. ISBN 9788419184870. 78 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2016). Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria - Urban Design by Narration. Ruby Press. ISBN 9783944074139. 430 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Bittner, Regine (2015). Architecture after Speculation. Spector Books. ISBN 9783959050173. 260 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas & Stadt, SMAQ Architektur und (2025). Living together Agnes-Hundoegger-Weg Hanover. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Stadt, SMAQ Architektur und & Land, Man Made (2025). Dragonerareal – Berlin. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas & Stadt, SMAQ Architektur und (2025). Rickmers Reismühle – Bremen. doi: https:/www.competitionline.com/de/news/ergebnisse/wohnungsneubau-auf-dem-areal-von-rickmers-reismuehle-in-bremen-638712/prizegroup/ein-3-preis-208874.html. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas & Ehrenberg, Jan (2025). Wie Gebäude in den Himmel kommen. [Journal]. Deutsche Bauzeitschrift. doi: https:/www.dbz.de/artikel/wie-gebaeude-in-den-himmel-kommen-4265688.html. Full text in Research Archive
• Quintanilla, Miguel Hernandez & Müller, Sabine (2025). Creative pedagogies through the study and transplant of agricultural precedents. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Recent decades have seen an increased interest in the potential contribution of historical agricultural management techniques to the design of more sustainable landscapes (Gali-Izard & Simon, 2005; Hein, 2020). This interest is driven by several factors, including biodiversity and soil fertility, as well as the spatial and aesthetic qualities produced by practices of cultivation that eschew the use of heavy machinery and are therefore closer to the land. The study and translation of management precedents is employed within the landscape architecture design studio “Hydropolis” at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design to the landscapes of the Oslo region — an area prone to flooding but also characterized by potential freshwater shortage. The study is organised according to the different locations and requirements within an abstract watershed, ranging from water derivation in the upland such as the levada channels in Iberia, to intermediate storage dams such as the kere in India, to the Venetian rain wells and the chinampas landscapes of Mexico in the lowlands. It is acknowledged that each precedent is the result of a specific climate and culture; therefore, the studies already include an interpretive dimension, focusing on flow, structure and space. The translation of the precedents to sites in the Oslo area is both a “reading lenses” and an open-ended catalytic design experiment. It serves to interrogate the landscapes in question for opportunities of water management and climate regulation connected to the particular spatial qualities of the precedents. Study and transplant have both archival and instrumental goals. On one hand, they aim at registering and disseminating knowledge marginal to modern technoscientific discourses on land management (Krzywoszynska & Banwart & Blacker, 2020). On the other hand, the results have shown that the exploration of historical agricultural methods triggers optimistic creative processes to face the environmental crisis underway.

• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2025). Democratic Design at the Dragonerareal, Kreuzberg (Rathausblock). Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika (2025). HYDROPOLIS: ENVISIONING WATERSHED URBANITY. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Contemporary cities grapple with detachment from their hydrological environments, exemplified by the Oslo region, which faces challenges of water excess and scarcity amid climate extremes. The Oslo Hydropolis project has emerged to explore regenerative water management in relation to urban life over nearly a decade. Hydropolis aims to complement contemporary urban planning and design with an approach termed "Watershed Urbanity," which views catchments as socio-ecological units. This concept seeks to reintegrate the social and cultural significance of water, moving beyond the perception of water as a mere risk or resource. The project's outcomes reveal the potential to reimagine the Oslo region through the lens of its watersheds. Here, the dynamics of water flows—both qualitative and quantitative— land management and daily practices are inextricably linked. By promoting water as an active agent to shape social practices and vice versa, the vision pioneers a participative and bodily outdoor urbanity in already developed areas and advocates for regenerative frameworks in development sites. Examples include daylighting small streams to promote bodily experiences of bathing, enhancing rural water through run-off filter spaces for day-out activities, and establishing decentralized water supply systems that create communal spaces around water sources and ensure public access to the fjord. Additionally, the project creatively engages with elements of landscape heritage, such as ice ponds, rehabilitating them into pools and bogs that include outdoor spaces fostering multicultural community interactions. Furthermore, the project promotes the role of low-density communities as stewards of well-moistened soils, and positions logistic parks as facilitators for groundwater replenishment. Although the project’s speculative nature may limit immediate applications, its compelling visual outcomes underscore the relationships between territory, water, and social interactions. Hydropolis aspires to ignite discussions about incorporating watershed logic into urban design, and more so propels a regional urbanity as a driver towards water regeneration, offering adaptable methodologies for other metropolitan areas.

• Müller, Sabine (2025). Stadtunterbau, Umsetzungsstrategien für den Unterbau der Stadt. Full text in Research Archive
• Callejas, Luis; Helms, Karin & Müller, Sabine (2025). AHO Jubilee exhibition Commons, Systems and Form. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika (2025). Oslo Hydropolis – Envisioning Watershed Urbanity. doi: https:/f-f-p.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/A-Abstract-book_v3.pdf. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas; Stadt, SMAQ Architektur und; LAND, MAN MADE; GmbH, Überseeinsel & GmbH, WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen (2024). Überseeinsel Bremen. doi: https:/www.polis-award.com/teilnehmer/ueberseeinsel-a2df07c2/. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas & Stadt, SMAQ Architektur und (2024). Student Housing, Aachen, Germany. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quintanilla, Miguel Hernandez (2024). All you can store! Designing regenerative landscape frameworks for logistic parks. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2024). Dragoner Areal Berlin - Participation Heritage 5-Minutes-City. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2024). Water(shed) Urbanism. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2024). Aspekte des Stadtmachens. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2024). On the edge – challenging spatial conventions. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2023). HOW DO WE AGGLO? Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2023). GESTALTEN – Gemeingut öffentlicher Raum. Full text in Research Archive
• Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika & Müller, Sabine (2022). Oslo Hydropolis - Interconnecting Scales. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Lundqvist, Anna (2022). Mischen as possible. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2022). Oslo Architecture Triennale: Mission Neighbourhood – (Re)forming communities Public Dialogue. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt (2022). IBA '27 Stuttgart Leben am Fluss Unterturkheim Stuttgart 2.Preis. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2022). The Re-Enchantment of the European City - First Insights from Research Project "Urban Base". Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2021). At the Urban Edge. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2021). Berlin Brandenburg 2070. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2021). BB2070 – Vision für eine ökologisch und sozial geprägte Zukunft der Metropolregion Berlin-Brandenburg. Full text in Research Archive
• Hofmann, Andrea; Römer, Alexander; Müller, Sabine & Ngo, Anh-Linh (2021). Planung als politischer Prozess. [Journal]. ARCH+ : Archplus. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2021). Inhabiting the Hydrosphere. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2021). DEUTSCHER ARCHITEKTURPREIS 2021. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2021). Niedersächsischer Staatspreis für Architektur 2020. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2021). Zusammen Wohnen. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt & ManMadeLand, Landscape Architecture (2020). Dragonerareal und angrenzende Bereiche Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Integrated Urban Design Workshop Process, selected project. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt; ManMadeLand, Landscape; gruppeomp, Architekten; nsp, Landschaft & Nagel, Günter (2020). Überseeinsel, Bremen: Masterplan and Gebäude 25. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt; gruppeomp, Architekten; Nagel, Günter; ManMadeLand, Landscape Architecture & nsp, Landschaft (2020). Überseeinsel, Bremen. In Rieniets, Tim; Sauerbruch, Matthias; Walter, Jörn & Künste, Berlin Akademie der (Ed.), urbainable – stadthaltig. Positions on the European City for the 21st Century. ArchiTangle. ISSN 9783883312415. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt; Wall, Alex; Tischer, Stefan & KOPPERROTH, Architektur und Stadtumbau [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Metropolitan Ecotone - Berlin Brandenburg 2070, 2nd prize. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt; Roth, Martin & KOPPERROTH, Architektur und Stadtumbau (2020). Stadtlandschaft Brandenburg-Berlin 2070 – Kontur einer Übergangsgesellschaft. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt; KOPPERROTH, Architektur und Stadtumbau; Wall, Alex; MMK, Urban Technologies Office & Tischer, Stefan (2020). Metropolitan Ecotone - Berlin Brandenburg 2070. In Bodenschatz, Harald; Goebel, Benedikt; Gräwe, Christina; Lemburg, Peter; Nitschke, Marcus; Schuster, Wolfgang & AIV, Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.), Unvollendete Metropole: Band 1: 100 Jahre Städtebau für Groß-Berlin Band 2: Internationaler Wettbewerb Berlin-Brandenburg 2070. Blick nach Europa. DOM Publishers. ISSN 9783869222417. p. 190–200. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2020). At the Urban Edge. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architektur und Stadt; KOPPERROTH, Architektur und Stadtumbau; Wall, Alex; MMK, Urban Technologies Office & Tischer, Stefan (2020). Kontur einer Übergangsgesellschaft - Berlin-Brandenburg 2070. Full text in Research Archive
• Korte, Jan; Müller, Sabine & Lundqvist, Anna (2020). „Am Anfang denkt man: Wie soll das gehen?“ Das Siegerteam des städtebaulichen Werkstattverfahrens im Gespräch. [Internet]. http://www.berlin.de/. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; Roth, Martin; Kopper, Marcus; Wall, Alex & Karl, Moritz Maria (2020). Stadtlandschaft Brandenburg-Berlin 2070 – Vision for a Metropolitan Ecotone. Full text in Research Archive
• Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika & Müller, Sabine (2019). The Imaginary of an Oslo Hydropolis. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2019). Postareal Kiel-Gaarden 1st prize Urban Design Competition. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2019). Apartment Buildings Agnes-Hundoegger-Weg, Hannover, Germany. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt (2018). Landesbibliothek der Zukunft Mönchengladbach. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2018). Wasser spazieren führen! Der Architekt. ISSN 0003-875X. 5. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine; SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt & Lundquist, Man Made Land Anna (2018). Südseite Europahafen Bremen. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt (2018). Neubau eines generationsübergreifenden Gebäudekomplexes in Neubrandenburg. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt (2018). Südseite Europahafen Bremen. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2017). Design Speculations on the Open City. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2017). After Nature*. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2017). Eine nachhaltige europäische Stadt – so lautet das Leitbild der 2007 formulierten Leipzig-Charta. Welches Zwischenfazit lässt sich nach zehn Jahren ziehen? Bauwelt. ISSN 0005-6855. p. 12–15. Full text in Research Archive
• SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt; Müller, Sabine; Quednau, Andreas; Studio, Rozana Montiel; Montiel, Rozana & Rodriguez, Claudia [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2017). Mexico City - Finding the Edge, Dome Fountain, Safeguarding. In Rosas, Marcos & Weiland, Ute (Ed.), CO-DESIGNING THE CITY: ARCHITECTURE + INFORMAL INTELLIGENCE. Alfred Herrhausen Society. ISSN 9781640085138. p. 62–115. Full text in Research Archive
• SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt & Müller, Sabine (2017). Hellwinkel Terrassen Wolfsburg, Weisse Stadt Oranienburg. Full text in Research Archive
• SMAQ, Architecture und Stadt & Müller, Sabine (2017). Berliner Platz Osnabrück, Ernst-Reuter-Platz Berlin, Reibeckplatz Halle. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2017). Urban Exchanger Mexico Berlin. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2017). Environments: A concept for Urban Projects. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2017). Environments - A Concept for Urban Projects. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2016). Lust am Klima / Lust am Wandel. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine (2016). Liquid Urbanism. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2016). Lust am Klima, Lust am Wandel. Der Architekt. ISSN 0003-875X. p. 32–37. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Quednau, Andreas (2016). Charter of Dubai. ARCH+ : Archplus. ISSN 0587-3452. p. 68–71. Full text in Research Archive
• Kivle, Angela; Hemmersam, Peter & Müller, Sabine (2025). Unforced coexistence : reconceptualising open space planning in Oslo through environmental justice and affordances theory. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703786. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  For over twenty years, open space planning in Oslo, Norway, has been driven by the vision of creating a greener, more equitable city. However, greening remains a contested term in urban design, planning and landscape research. Without an understanding of the nuances of how public open spaces are used, designers risk applying universalised assumptions about everyday use to suburban greening projects. This study used the theoretical framework of critical environmental justice, encompassing distributive, procedural, and recognition justice, to examine the norms made explicit in strategic planning documents and among designers involved in daylighting projects in Oslo. Through a spatial analysis of landscape architectural drawings, walking interviews, as well as an analysis of planning documents and promotional material, this thesis first sought to understand the norms and assumptions in the planning documents and among designers. Secondly, in order to question and nuance these normative assumptions, direct observations of everyday use were conducted in two daylighting projects in Osloʼs Grorud Valley between April 2021 and February 2023: Grorud Park and Byggerʼn Activity Park. The everyday use of suburban parks was approached through the theoretical concept of affordances, rooted in environmental psychology, which highlights the often unseen interactions in open spaces between people and the environments they inhabit. Examining the two case studies through the lens of recognition justice and affordance theory revealed a dissonance between the terminology used by designers and in strategic policy documents, and how these open spaces were actually used. Drawing on affordances theory, this thesis introduces four relational terms—touch, leave, merge and diverge—to provide an awareness of the dynamic moments of ebb and flow, nearing and distancing between users in these two parks in low–density neighbourhoods on the urban periphery. When the environment invites both proximity and distance, as well as encounter and avoidance, users of public open spaces can interact with each other in ways that help them to manage their differences—what I call an environment of unforced coexistence.

• Quednau, Andreas; Müller, Sabine; Buchholz, Antje; Patzak-Poor, Jürgen; Kapitola, Ina & Hartmann, Gunnar (2024). Stadtunterbau – Urban Base: Handlungsoptionen für den Unterbau der Stadt. Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR). doi: https:/www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/veroeffentlichungen/bbsr-online/2024/bbsr-online-98-2024.html;jsessionid=93F33C04C50008CD7AD774A07E1B8378.live11314. Full text in Research Archive
• Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika; Müller, Sabine & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Deep landscape. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703717. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  We know very little about what is under our feet. We are used to the sight of manhole covers punctuating the streets around us, and we know that they provide access to the subterranean water system. But where does that system start and end, and how is the manmade, reworked ground made up? Humans have a history of adapting well to notions of an expanding world, but what about the closest realm in distance and time: the ground on which we stand and within which our fresh water is contained? This thesis argues in favour of urbanism not only incorporating landscape but also actively incorporating the other, unseen half of the landscape: the underground. It explores how we could get closer to perceiving the depth of the landscape setting we inhabit. This is increasingly important in a time when human actions dominate the geological ground conditions. The design case of daylighting of a piped underground water system to make it an open, landscape-integrated surface system reveals a need to design both visible- and invisible underground landscapes together. This exegesis thus expands on my claim that the landscape has a composed depth. The design case has been used to test this assumption and provided various findings, reflected on a posteriori in the exegesis to determine their implications for the landscape- and urbanism disciplines. This has further resulted in the coining of the ‘deep landscape’ as a term, a concept, and a strategy for design. This thesis is positioned between the fields of landscape architecture and urbanism, and it offers insights into water and urban ground conditions in one conference paper and two published articles. It uses the term ‘deep landscape’ as a reminder of the inseparable context beneath our feet. The presence of water and the ongoing processes below grade, as well as the subterranean landscape modified by humans and its installations, the reworked ground, must inform and become part of landscape architecture and urbanism.

• Müller, Sabine & Hernandez, Miguel (2022). Billboards outside Oslo - Master Studio AHO Spring 2022. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Müller, Sabine & Hernandez, Miguel (2021). Make Water Do - Master Studio AHO Spring 2021. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703465. Full text in Research Archive

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