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Sabine Müller is Professor of Urbanism at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. She is an architect and urban designer, and principal of SMAQ architecture urbanism and research in Berlin. Before establishing SMAQ she worked for West 8 (Rotterdam) and Asymptote (New York). Previously, she taught at the Delft University of Technology and at Bauhaus Dessau. She was an assistant professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a visiting critic at Cornell University. In 2026 she was the recipient of the Patrick Geddes fellowship at the University of Edinburgh.
Her urban and architectural practice, as well as her landscape research, is centred on the idea that the built responds to and acts within an extensive field of environmental and social forces to catalyse regenerative processes.
Completed and ongoing works include the masterplans for the Überseeinsel Harbour conversion in Bremen, Dragoner Areal in Berlin as well as Hellwinkel Terrassen in Wolfsburg. With SMAQ, Sabine Müller has received several profiled awards, including the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction and the German Architecture Price for the residential project Living Together.
Sabine Müller lectures frequently. Her work was exhibited at the Venice and Rotterdam Biennales. She often serves as jury for competitions, including the German Urban Design Price (Deutscher Städtebaupreis) and the German Architecture Price.
Her books include Charter of Dubai: A Manifesto of Critical Urban Transformation (Jovis), Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria: Urban Design by Narration (Rubypress), as well as BRAKIN, Brazzaville – Kinshasa, Visualizing the Visible (Lars Müller)
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