Dennis Mueller

Dennis Mueller is Professor for Building Construction and Design at the Peter Behrens School of Arts, Hochschule Düsseldorf. He is actively teaching courses in building construction and design, with recent courses including "Konstruktion II" and various design studios for bachelor students. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Livable and Environmentally Appropriate Urban Development (In-LUST).

• Full-time teaching staff (Hauptamtlich Lehrender)
• Member of the exhibition committee at Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof since 2019
• Appointed to AKJAA and BDA in 2015

Professor Mueller's research and teaching focus on returning to the essential aspects of architecture, emphasizing the logical chain of decisions starting from the site that address all fundamental elements of architecture. His work centers on the interaction between buildings and their location, the relationships between humans and space, and the development of materiality from the task, location, and primary requirements. He advocates for understanding design as a holistic and integrative process that combines complex dependencies into simple solutions.

His architectural philosophy emphasizes that the truly formal is conditioned, intertwined with the task, and the most elementary expression of its solution. He believes in freeing architecture from aesthetic speculation and returning building to what it should be: pure building. His work demonstrates how contemporary buildings can achieve internal coherence, simple functionality and construction, and clear, unadorned aesthetics through thoughtful consideration of context, space, materiality, joining of materials, and structural considerations.

• Deutscher Architekturpreis 2017 (Recognition)
• Deutscher Holzbaupreis 2017 (Recognition)
• Fritz-Höger-Preis Winner Gold (2014)
• German Design Award Winner (2013)
• best architects awards (multiple years)
• iF design awards (multiple categories)

Professor Mueller has been involved in significant architectural projects including the Museum Luthers Sterbehaus, Kinder- und Familienzentrum Ludwigsburg, and various exhibitions. His recent work focuses on sustainable building systems, particularly wood-earth composite construction methods, and monitoring with digital models through the HDU MiMO project. He has taught at the University of Stuttgart and worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology before joining Hochschule Düsseldorf in 2016.