MCKNHM is an award-winning architecture and design firm based in San Francisco and Düsseldorf, Germany. For over twenty years, Mark Mückenheim, the founder of MCKNHM Architects, has contributed to building, research, and teaching in the field of architectural design. His strong belief that architecture is much more than just a service and that architectural quality is able to deliver a higher value that is capable of elevating how we experience and enjoy our life, is reflected in the way MCKNHM Architects are designing buildings for a wide variety of clients, locations and uses, intelligently and sustainably responding to the specifics of their site, brief and needs of the possible occupants.

MCKNHM undertakes architectural and urban planning projects that encompass a diverse range of schemes, programs, and typologies across various scales and locations. The firm’s professional network includes architects, engineers, landscape architects, designers, and artists. Selected experts from this group are involved early on in the design and building process. Through an intense collaboration within this network and in partnership with their clients, MCKNHM Architects strives to realize individual, innovative, and yet sustainable and efficient solutions.

MCKNHM Architects render themselves independent of any design boundaries or methods. The guiding force behind their work is a conceptually driven design approach, resulting in a comprehensive design strategy. Their design work is therefore the result of intense, project-oriented investigations, which are also reflected in their active engagement with teaching, research, and collaboration with various architecture schools and institutions. This integrated design approach enables the architecture to evolve in response to the various parameters established by the client, site, location, and other specific requirements of a given assignment. The way MCKNHM Architects approach their tasks is that possible challenges of a project are not seen as obstacles, but rather as chances and opportunities to develop exceptional, yet tangible solutions for the world we would like to live in.

MCKNHM Architects has received national and international awards. It has been featured in various international book and journal publications and has also gained reputation through several international exhibitions.

MCKNHM Architects is a full-service firm licensed in Germany and the European Union. The firm provides its architectural design services worldwide. International projects are completed together with close partners abroad, licensed local firms, and contractors. While doing so, the care MCKNHM Architects apply to the execution of projects is deeply rooted in the ethics of thorough German engineering and contemporary, high-quality design.