Max Schwitalla

Max Schwitalla’s interest in architecture grew out of skateboarding and his experience of cities in motion. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and ETH Zurich, where he received his Diploma in Architecture in 2006. Before founding Studio Schwitalla, he worked with Rem Koolhaas/OMA in Rotterdam and New York, Graft in Berlin and Los Angeles, and HENN in Berlin. He has taught or served as a guest critic at the Architectural Association in London, Rio Academy, TU Berlin, UdK Berlin, ETH Zurich, TU Dresden, and the Aedes Network Campus Berlin. In 2025/26, he was a Rome Prize Fellow at Villa Massimo in Rome. Since 2012, he has collaborated with Schindler Aufzüge AG, Switzerland, under a research and development (R&D) agreement focused on urban mobility within the built environment.