Architecture – a process

“Of crucial importance for our projects is the creation of a site. To do this, however, architecture is not necessarily reinvented; rather, we try to learn from the long history of building – without falling prey to historicism. For us, it is important to define sites whose spaces are convincing through their physical and tactile qualities. To achieve this, qualities of existing buildings are questioned and transformed into a modern formal language: The well-known has a new effect.”

Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir, Oei

Lecture in German

Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei was founded in Stuttgart in 1979. From the very beginning, the office regularly took part in competitions because it was seen as a stimulating way of dealing with current issues.

Among the competition successes are the Munich Volkstheater, the dialogicum (dm drogerie markt company headquarters), the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt a.M. and the Stadtmuseum Stuttgart. Other projects such as the extension of the Württemberg State Library, the school extension and housing in Cologne-Lindenthal, the Ravensburg Art Museum, the new building and renovation of the Episcopal Ordinariate in Rottenburg am Neckar and the new Hospitalhof building in Stuttgart are also the result of competition successes.