Bayer & Strobel Architekten

Gunther Bayer and Peter Strobel started working together while still doing their degree at the University of Kaiserslautern. Soon after, they set up their office in southwest Germany and set out to develop their joint practice. Their focus is on 'the realisation of successful competition designs as well as residential buildings and the conversion of existing structures,’ they explain. Their site-specific approach matched by a passion to work with each client’s individual needs. ‘With each project, at first there’s the site and the context. To condense the complex conditions of architecture in a simple and contemporary way is our biggest aim’, they say.
www.bayerundstrobel.de
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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