A void within another. The Outdoor Room by Frank Barkow and Salazar Sequero Medina

Barkow Leibinger’s work is realized over a wide range of scales and building types including building for workplace (industry, office, and master-planning), cultural, housing, event spaces, exhibitions and installations in the public realm internationally. Important milestones are amongst others the Biosphere in Potsdam, Germany, the Customer and Administration Building , the Gate House and the Campus Restaurant in Ditzingen, Germany and the Trutec Building in Seoul. Recently completed buildings include the Tour Total office high-rise in Berlin and an apartment and hotel complex in passive house standard in Freiburg, Germany.

Their work has been shown at the Architecture Biennale Venice 2008 and 2014, at the Marrakech Biennale 2012 and is included in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, and the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt. Barkow Leibinger have won three National AIA Honor Awards for Architecture and the prestigious Marcus Prize for Architecture, Milwaukee, recognizing emerging talent in the field for design excellence and innovation, as well a Global Holcim Innovation Award for sustainability.

Frank Barkow. Born in Kansas City, USA, 1957. Bachelor of Architecture, Montana State University, 1982. Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, 1990. Visiting Critic, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and Rome, 1990. Unit Master, Architectural Association, London, 1995-98. The Arthur Gensler Visiting Professor of Architecture Cornell University, Ithaca, 2003. Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2004. Visiting Professor, State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart, Germany, 2005-06. Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA, 2008, 04, 00. Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, USA, 2008. Visiting Professor, EPFL Écoles Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010. Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany, Since 1993.

Regine Leibinger. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, 1963. Diploma, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 1989. Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA, 1991. Assistant Professor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, 1993–97. Unit Master, Architectural Association, London, England, 1997–98. Guest Professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany, 1999–2000. Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, USA, 2000, 04. Professor for Building Construction and Design, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Since 2006. Member of the ’Visiting Committees’, MIT Department of Architecture, Cambridge, USA, Since 2011. Barkow Leibinger Architects, Berlin, Germany, Since 1993.

In 2024, we have been shortlisted for the MCHAP Emerging Practices award (USA) and for the ARQUIA/Próxima Festival for Emerging Practices (Spain).

In 2025, salazarsequeromedina was awarded the Architectural League NY Prize for Young Architects and Designers.

Laura Salazar-Altobelli (Lima, 1990) is a Peruvian-American architect and holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, 2017. She has extensive professional experience, most recently as project architect at Barkow Leibinger, in Berlin.

Salazar has published in Pidgin Magazine, Sustainable Cities and Society, Lunch Journal, and PLAT Journal. Her work has been exhibited at the Jewett Gallery when she was a fellow with the Alice C Cole Fund for Sculpture. In addition to practice and academia, Salazar has cofounded and coordinates Let’s Talk, a platform for architectural discourse.

She is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Pratt Institute and has previously taught at Syracuse University School of Architecture and Montana State University.

Pablo Sequero Barrera (Madrid, 1989) is a registered architect and designer, graduated with a Master of Architecture from the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid in 2015.

Sequero has been a collaborator at Rafael Moneo's studio in Madrid and, most recently, with Barkow Leibinger in Berlin. He received a Banco Santander grant for his collaboration with the office FRPO architecture landscape, where he was part of the team on the IX BIAU exhibition design, in Rosario, Argentina.

He is currently a Visiting Critic at Syracuse University School of Architecture, and has taught previously at Cornell AAP and Montana State University.

Juan Medina Revilla (Madrid, 1989) is a registered architect and a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Madrid, ETSAM. He studied Architecture at the ETSAM and the ENSA Paris-Belleville, obtaining his Master of Architecture in 2015.

He was awarded the ARQUIA grant, which led him to collaborate with Álvaro Siza's practice in Porto. He also practiced in Madrid and Berlin for renowned offices such as Nieto & Sobejano, Sauerbruch & Hutton and Schmitt von Holst.

He is currently a Professor of Practice at Tulane University and has taught previously at the ETSAM.