Bram Aerts y Carolien Pasmans. TRANS architectuur I stedenbouw

ATAMA, formerly TRANS, was founded in 2011 by Bram Aerts and Carolien Pasmans. In a short time, the studio has built a strong reputation at the forefront of an acclaimed generation of Flemish design studios.

The team works on transformative projects with urgent social, cultural, and ecological challenges. They work on spatial transformations that are both autonomous and mediating in an often complex urban context, where the transformation of the human environment can be supported in multiple ways.

Major award-winning projects include the Royal Institute for Theatre, Film, and Sound in Brussels, the De Felix Cultural Centre in Ghent, the transformation of a skyscraper in Brussels' European District, and a stacked car depot for Ghent.

Previous projects include the Ryhove Urban Factory, the Leietheater, and the Deelfabriek. The studio is working on several large-scale masterplans in Flanders. Together with Carmody Groarke and RE-ST, the practice was selected as the winner of the international design competition for the Design Museum Ghent, currently under construction.

Bram and Carolien are professors and have led studios at the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Antwerp, and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture. Both lecture internationally on architecture and urban planning.

ATAMA was shortlisted for the EU Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019, 2021, and 2023, and won the Belgian Construction Awards in 2019 and the BigMat Awards in 2019. In 2019, ATAMA was a finalist for the Jo Crepain Awards for the most innovative studio in Flanders.

ATAMA's work has been published internationally. In 2018, nai | 010 published "City Made," the first monograph on the practice. In 2019, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts published “As a Theatre.”