Schmidt Schicketanz

About Schmidt-Schicketanz

Schmidt-Schicketanz is a German architecture practice with offices in Munich and Augsburg. Rooted in Munich since 1972 and located beside the English Garden, the office has completed more than 200 projects, many of them won through competitions and public procurement procedures. Its diverse, international team develops what it describes as forward-looking and sustainable architecture, and the practice now operates as part of a group alongside Kling Consult and Sieber Consult.

Design Approach

The studio places personal, inspiring dialogue between all partners at the centre of every project, from first sketch through to completion. Three principles underpin the work: honest respect for the individual needs of clients and building users, a developed sense of aesthetics, and genuine appreciation for the qualities of each site. These apply equally to new construction and to the refurbishment of existing buildings.

Its stated position is the precise realisation of carefully developed and future-capable architectural concepts - a description that fits an office whose reputation rests on delivery quality as much as design ambition.

Services

• New build (Neubau) - new buildings across public, institutional and residential sectors
• Refurbishment (Sanierung) - a particular specialism in upgrading and renewing existing structures
• Consulting (Beratung) - advisory services for owners and developers
• General planning (Generalplanung) - single-point responsibility across all design disciplines
• Project development (Projektentwicklung) - early-stage feasibility and development strategy

The office covers all HOAI service phases, meaning it can carry a commission from initial concept through approval planning, tender documentation and site supervision to handover.

Integrated Planning

Membership of a group with Kling Consult and Sieber Consult gives the practice fixed planning partners in structural engineering, surveying, ground investigation and urban planning. That allows a genuinely integral planning approach, with disciplines coordinated inside one commercial structure rather than assembled project by project.

Refurbishment Focus

Alongside new build, the refurbishment of existing buildings forms a particular emphasis. In Germany, where much of the public building stock dates from the post-war decades and carries substantial energy retrofit obligations, this expertise is increasingly central rather than secondary work.

Representative Projects

• Olympiaturm Munich and the Justizpalast and Oberlandesgericht Munich - landmark public buildings
• Feuerwache 1 Munich and Feuerwehr Piding - fire stations
• Blindeninstitut Munich - institute for the blind
• Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium Gräfelfing, Realschule Bad Aibling, Montessori-Schule Penzberg and multiple schools and kindergartens
• Thierschbau TU Munich, Anatomische Anstalt LMU Munich and the Institutsgebäude Campus Homburg - university and research buildings
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg depot and Depot Museum Oberschönenfeld - museum storage
• Wohn-Hochhaus Harlaching - residential tower
• Polizeiinspektion Simbach am Inn and the Polizei-Einsatztrainingszentrum Bayreuth - police facilities

Market Position

The practice competes strongly for Bavarian public sector commissions, where competition success, HOAI-compliant delivery and refurbishment capability matter more than signature style. Its group structure lets it offer general planning on projects that would otherwise require several separate appointments.

Why AEC Teams Should Know Schmidt-Schicketanz

For teams working on German public buildings, schools or institutional refurbishment, the office is a useful reference for competition-led procurement and integrated planning across the built environment.