ATELIERGROUPE is an architecture practice based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Given the contemporary condition of overwhelming information, ATELIERGROUPE aims to define precise operational strategies to achieve a voluntary, deliberate and non-random transformation of our environment.
In order to organize the project, ATELIERGROUPE is taking notes from architecture*, using it as a tool able to define the context and to formalize the given.
Eventually, the projects are intentionally cultural, as mise en scène in relation to the territory it engages, defined by both its ambitious character and the obstacles it has to tackle.
ATELIERGROUPE is Frederik Dahlqvist, Albin Mehmeti, Alexander Wegener and collects experiences from Studio Paola Viganò, OFFICE KGDVS, Seyler & Lucan and DOGMA.
Frederik Dahlqvist
graduated in Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Master of Science in Architecture).
He worked at DOGMA in Brussels, participating in rigorous theoretical thinking and critical research on the role of architecture in society. He was involved in teaching at LIF EPFL.
Frederik is also engaged with the designing of furniture and specific objects.
Albin Mehmeti
graduated in Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Master of Science in Architecture).
He worked at Seyler & Lucan architectes-urbanistes in Paris, where he addressed the housing question through typological studies.
He contributed to teaching programs at EPFL, collaborating with Jo Taillieu and Nicola Braghieri.
Albin is also active in painting architecture.
Alexander Wegener
graduated in Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.
He contributed to publications of Office Without Office.
He worked at OFFICE KGDVS in Brussels, focusing on form and its relationship to the city, and at Studio Paola Viganò, contributing to research on socio-ecological transition in the Grand Genève context.
