Project Architecture Company discovers the untapped potential of the existing to create something new.

Renovation and Addition is a strategy we embrace. The initial methodology we apply with each design is the simple need for research. Any existing context has its own programmatic, structural and volumetric principles that have to be understood and respected. Sometimes only a minimal intervention is sufficient to reveal the quality and character of an existing site. Our design intention is to combine the new with the old in an unexpected way, making an architecture at once familiar and unique. We are interested in projects of various scales - ranging from small interiors to urban masterplans - and look forward to each new challenge.

Project Architecture Company was founded by Anne Menke and Richard Sharam in 2011 and is based in Berlin with a satellite office in London.

Anne Menke MSc / Dipl.Ing (FH):
Anne was born in Hameln, Germany. She received her Diploma of Architecture from Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany in 2002 and her Master of Science from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 2006.
After working for OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, Winkens Architekten and Oswald Mathias Ungers in Berlin, HAUS+ was Anne’s first own commission. In 2008 she moved to New York, where she was a project architect at WORK Architecture Company for the past 3 years. Her projects there included among others a villa in Ordos China, a museum extension in Houston Texas and a public library in Queens NY which is under construction now.
Anne has taught at FH Potsdam and TU Delft, and was a visiting critic at the New York Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Since 2012 she is a teaching at Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Anne is a licenced architect and member of the Architektenkammer Berlin (Nr. 13845).

Richard Sharam B.A. / Dipl. Arch.:
Richard was born in Wiltshire, England. He received his RIBA award winning Bachelor Degree from Portsmouth University, England in 2003 and his Diploma of Architecture from The Bartlett, University College London, England in 2007.
After working for Allies and Morrison in London, Richard joined Rem Koolhaas' OMA in 2005 and for the past 5 years has been working in their offices in Rotterdam, Shenzhen and New York.
As well as designing competition winning schemes such as Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (now under construction), he has also been on-site architect for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters in Shenzhen, China (expected completion 2013), and was project manager for a multiple housing development in the Lower East Side, Manhattan.
Richard has been a visiting critic at the Architectural Association (AA) in London.

Project Architecture Company collaborates with:
- WORK Architecture Company, New York www.work.ac
- Tobias Meinecke Dipl.Ing. (FH), Büro Balzereit, Berlin www.buero-balzereit.de
- Statikbüro Bernd Kerkhoff, Hessisch Oldendorf www.kerkhoff-statik.de