Ferdinand Knecht (1991) is a trained cabinet maker, architect and researcher based in Berlin. He develops conceptual architectural projects with a social, environmental, and political impact.
After training as a cabinet maker, he studied architecture in Münster and Weimar. During his studies, he worked for Brandlhuber+Muck Petzet Architekten in Berlin as well as for 2038, the German Pavilion at the 17th Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Ferdinand is co-editor of the 15th edition of horizonte, co-author of the 2nd edition of the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) Biennale Stories, and founder of frntr_arc an archive for furniture design that is between the extra ordinary and the extraordinary.
From 2019 to 2026 he worked in various roles for Muck Petzet Architekten in Berlin. Since 2023 he has been part of ReduceReuseRecycleArchitecture, an international architecture platform and network, an he is involved in the an.ders Urania initiative, which campaigns against demolition policies and advocates for the preservation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings.
In 2024 he founded 31636 together with Avital Greenshpon, a Berlin-based design studio working across research, product and architecture with a multi-perspective approach. It explores the environmental, social, political, cultural and aesthetic influences that shape design for a post-carbon environment, giving a central role to bio-based materials, local techniques, the reuse of materials and simple solutions.
Ferdinand is a registered architect with the chamber of architects in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Collaborations
2038 (the German Pavilion at the 17th Architecture Biennale); 31636; an.ders Urania; Catherine Arend; Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; Brandlhuber+; Bruno Fioretti Marquez; Maria Eichhorn; Leo Augustin Filser; frntr_arc; Avital Greenshpon; Initiative Horizonte; ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen); Muck Petzet Architekten; Münster School of Architecture; ReduceReuseRecycleArchitecture; Stadtnomaden
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Ferdinand Knecht, M.Sc.
Claudiusstr. 6
D—10557 Berlin
fk@ferdinandknecht.com
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