Ester Bruzkus founded the Berlin-based practice in 2002 and since 2016 has been working in partnership with Peter Greenberg. With their team, they have completed a number of award-winning projects that integrate surprising color combinations, logical planning, contrasts of opulence and minimalism, and careful material detailing. Their portfolio focuses on the design of the interior and includes work at different scales – furniture design, restaurants, hotels, private residences, workplaces, and exhibit design. Ester Bruzkus was raised in Berlin and studied architecture at the TU Berlin and the Ècole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville; Peter Greenberg was raised in New York City and studied architecture at Yale University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. The two met while they were both teaching the Berlin studio of the Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston).
We like working with straight lines, precise planning, material differences, and plenty of surprises.
We like contrasts of thick and thin, sharp and soft, curved and straight, rough and smooth, common and opulent, colorful and restrained, playful and well-resolved.
We like projects that create a dialogue of space and light, materiality and color, existing constraints and new opportunities - and especially a synergy between the needs of the space, the client, and the aspirations of great design.
We like boxes within boxes, rooms within rooms, the blurring of inside and out, material contrasts, and surprising color combinations.
We like collecting - we collect images and colors that speak to our heart and combine them in our own way.
We find inspiration in lots of places... old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows...
Ester Bruzkus Architekten
Schwedter Straße 34A
10435 Berlin
mail@esterbruzkus.com
T +49 30 235 979 40
You can find furniture we have designed and furniture we have curated for our projects at our sister company studiocoucou.
