Brandlhuber+
Brandlhuber+ was founded in 2006 as a collaborative design practice by Arno Brandlhuber. Since 2022, the work continues as the cooperative practice b+, joined by the partners Olaf Grawert, Jonas Janke, and Roberta Jurćič.
The practice focuses on the reuse and transformation of existing buildings and neighbourhoods in order to preserve their social, ecological, and cultural values. Rather than approaching architecture as the production of new objects, the practice works with what already exists. b+ develops strategies to preserve existing buildings, designs renovation and reuse concepts, identifies cost-effective and ecological adaptation methods, and creates narratives that support their transformation. This work spans buildings, research, films, publications, and exhibitions.
The practice understands architecture as embedded within legal, economic, and regulatory frameworks that shape what can be built, used, and inhabited. Legislation, standards, and market logics are treated as design material: conditions that can be read, interpreted, and reconfigured. Projects such as Brunnenstraße 9, Antivilla, St. Agnes, and San Gimignano Lichtenberg, Midway Art Center, Mäusebunker CC demonstrate how different readings of the same rules can lead to fundamentally different spatial outcomes.
Across all formats, b+ focuses on the potential of the existing, developing built and narrative arguments for systemic change in the way architecture is produced, valued, and governed.
