MKA is a studio for open architecture and creative strategy based in Amsterdam and Lisbon. We bring people together for the new sustainable ways people want to live.
Our network of pioneers in architecture, con-tech, real estate and branding help our clients to co-create strategic Super Future narratives using Super Systems for shared living, sustainable stay, creative hubs and circular neighborhoods.
We also pioneer and prototype Super Systems to prove the future is already here, like Superlofts, Superwood, Superstudios, Mama Pioneers, Floram and Openbuilding.co
We invite you to shoot for the moon and build the Super Spaces of tomorrow today, together.
We should all feel at home in the city.
We just need to feel like we belong.
MKA dares to shape how we live, not just where.
We pioneer urban spaces to draw people together and draw out their potential.
We do it because it’s what people crave.
Because it’s what makes a city truly alive.
And because we can.
Are you in?
MKA’s Open Architecture vision aims to improve quality of life with social design for inspiring, adaptive and co-created sustainable environments. We help our clients pioneer new ways of living and building using three pillars and scales of ongoing practical exploration.
Open cities – co-creating social fabric in urban villages.
Open buildings – timeless buildings, designed to adapt to the future.
Open systems – closing material, waste, energy and ecological loops in the circular economy.
AM
Amvest
Amsterdam Development – RGB group
Banlieu
BPD – Bouwfonds Property Development
Being Development
De Berg Vastgoed
COD
Edwin Oostmeijer Projectontwikkeling BV
Eigen Haard
ERA Contour
Flow Real Estate
Intermaris
Janssen de Jong
Lingotto
Metabolic
MaMa Pioneers
Nature Hotel Terschelling
Revolve
SDK
Siza Zorgvastgoed
Sprangers
Stebru
Stout Trebbe
Syntrus achmea real estate & finance
The Social Hub
Timeless
Vink Bouw
Vorm
Van Wonen
Zeeman Vastgoed
Zorg vastgoed management BV
DiD
Ymere
Blink
Lucas Vos
BAM
Gemeente Haarlem
Gemeente Purmerend
Gemeente Amsterdam
Edegem (B)
Unversiteit van Gent (B)
Gemeente Heuvelland
Gemeente Gent & Hogeschool Gent
Gemeente Edegem
ARPA journal – Ownership Unpacked
House like Village on Wallpaper
Unfinished homes touted as potential solution to the global housing crisis
Could ‘naked’ homes solve the housing crises
Loose-Fit Architecture: Designing Buildings for Change
Chepos Magazine, Habraken
The Financial Times, Bricks Pickings
De ethiek van Real Estate (in Dutch)
Marc Koehler embeds dune house into the topographic landscape
The Superlofts philosophy
The Right to Belong in the City: Bursting the Bubble City
We’re on Freunde von Freunden
How Open Buildings offer the solution to gaining flexible and affordable housing
Dutch Building Award in 2015
World Architecture Festival Housing Award (Completed Buildings) in 2017
World Architecture Festival Director’s Special Award in 2017
World Architecture News Award for Best Housing Project in Europe in 2017
BNA Best Dutch Building of the Year (Housing) in 2018
Architectenweb Award for Housing in 2018
Nomination for the Architect of the Year Award in 2021
Nomination for the Rietveldprijs 2020, Blok Y
Nominated for the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon in 2022 with four projects:
Superlofts Groningen, Koivistokade, Jakoba Mulderhuis, Robin Wood (won in the category Future Residential Projects)
Nominee for Archdaily Building of the Year Award 2022, Edgem community center
Shortlisted FRAME Awards, Learning space of the year 2023, Jakoba Mulderhuis
Nomination for Architectenweb Awards Office Building of the Year 2023, Koivistokade Amsterdam
Winner of Co-living Award, Contech: Construction Technology 2024, Poppies Amsterdam
Winner of Architectenweb award for Residential building of the year 2024, Republica Amsterdam
Marc Koehler
Eric Thijssen
Marion van Leeuwen
Carlos Moreira
Mai Henriksen
Carina Hendriks
Corinne Schrauwen
Gaetano Sedicino
Robbie Neijzen
Satoru Muneda
Boaz Hamerpagt
Aart Reijn
Bartek Litwinko
Rein Wagenaar
Ana Lipovsek
James Bell
Aaron Sentkowitz
Pedro Clarke
Gui Perdix
Aitana de Jong
Lodewijk van Grootel
Stefan Wetselaar
Masira Velduis
Victor Venson
Mark Tesselaar
