WE ARE VMX ARCHITECTS

“We design and build attractive spaces for people. As socially committed architects, our mission is to improve the built environment and thus, quality of life. In all our projects we focus on the users and facilitate interaction between people, thereby helping to create healthy communities.

Our buildings communicate clearly with their users and surroundings. Together with our clients and advisors, we realise architecture that gives meaning, defines identity, instills pride and enhances solidarity. While the striking features of our designs are usually easy to recognise, their aesthetic qualities often reveal themselves particuarly in the second instance.

VMX Architects is an internationally operating, prize-winning office founded in 1994 in Amsterdam. Our work ranges from the typically Dutch bike shed to a VIP terminal at Schiphol Airport, and from social housing to university buildings in Shanghai. Our social commitment is reflected in our frequent lectures, our contribution to education, our participation on advisory councils and juries, and our summer school."

 
 

THe team

We work with an international team of architects, whose diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise contribute to the creation of innovatory, unexpected, unique designs and skilfully realised buildings. Our working method is characterised by a horizontal organisation and personal approach, with an emphasis on close collaboration with the client, users and experts from other disciplines.

 

CONOR MURPHY
Senior Architect >>>

ERIK BUSGER OP VOLLENBROEK
Senior Architect

SHAYA FALLAHI
Director VMX Architects >>>

JOB VAN DER SANDE
Senior Architect >>>

ANDREA COCINELLI
Visual Artist

 

JULIA LANDREAU
Junior Architect

Khaled Azizi
Senior Technical Architect

DON MURPHY
Founder VMX Architects

MAARTEN KEMPENAAR
Senior Architect

DIKLA ARAMA
Office Manager

MAHMOOD AYAD
VMX Architects Oman

KLARA, SHAGHY, MALGORZATA AND JULIA
VMX Architects’s Interns

… i’m never happy

Don Murphy takes you on a small tour to some of our projects in Amsterdam. To all surprise the movie was made by the German brand Falke for their online magazine in 2014.

W.A.ve. 2017 - 72 Students took part in the class of VMX Architects.

 Syria - the making of the future

VMX hosted a workshop at W.A.ve. 2017 in Venice.  In general W.A.Ve. 2017 was an opportunity to focus the attention of the global architectural culture on the urbicide of Syrian cities and fully reaffirm the membership of the country in the cultural heritage of humanity and the cosmopolitan responsibility for its reconstruction.

Thinking City foundation

With the ambition to develop a new educational format that is strongly connected to the city, Don Murphy initiated the Thinking City Summer School. In the form of a two-week program, the summer school approaches contemporary urban issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. By working on topical case studies, in close collaboration with local stakeholders, participants with a background in architecture, planning, arts, social sciences and other disciplines jointly work on globally relevant challenges. A complementary public lecture program opens the summer school to a broad audience, thereby making it a true event for the city.

After two successful summer schools in 2014 and 2015 in Amsterdam, building on the strong Dutch tradition of planning and design, Foundation Thinking City currently explores international collaborations for upcoming editions.

The Dynamics of Making Amsterdam (2014)    Organized by Foundation Thinking City in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology.

VMX AGENDA

is a book published in 2007 about VMX Architects from 1994 to 2006. Honest and confrontational, a look behind the scenes at an architectural practice, working methods, joys and frustrations and a context that produced it all. 

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VMX Architects was established in 1994. Many of the people who had joined the team started their own successful office.

Reinier de Graaf, Daniel Niggli, Vasa Perovic, Claudia Temperilli, Hugo Kok, Han Harleman, Frank Koninck, Katrien de Goede, Ed Veenendaal, Leon Tennissen, Skafte Aymo Boot, Johan Selbing, Christina Eickmeier, Angelique Haver, Anne -Catherine Dubois, Gijs Baks, Ze Tavares da Silva, Pepijn Nolet, Rob Otten, Casper Vos, Bogdan Bocanet, Irene Curulli, Peter Stokkermans, Chrisine Yadlowsky, Nicholas Dodd, Oresti Sarafopoulos, Joe O'Sullivan, Paola Verde, Jan-Richard Kikkert, Marco Moretto, Victoria Polanco, Sergio Dias, Olv Klijn, Richard Buis, Asterios Agkathidis, Ivo de Jeu, Carlotta Franco, Peyvand Yavari, Puchien Chan, Stefano Bollati, Bruno Costa, Nika van Berkel, Robbert Verheij, Dinara Shakiba, Menno Stieber, Jeffrey Quartel, Jakub Pohunek, Reinier de Jong, Marc Keizer, Zhuoer Wang, Soraya Ghezelbash, Boris de Jong, Natalia Sulkowska, Maarten Rozemuller, Wiet van Asten, Joan Comamala, Sarah van der Schilden, Stefan Breij, John Bosch, Adrienne Becht, Paul Alessie, Seyma Serife, Oliver Hortensius, Eric Feenstra, Jurgen Metz, Saskia van Heerde, Begonia Masia, Kaspar Fischer, Valentina Penna, Hyun Vin Kaspers, Ramazan Celik, Esther Brejaart, Chew Win Bin, Fabian Lutter, Anna Lopes Ramos, Ingrid Schmaeldecke, Youmin Won, Bas Lavrijssen, Martin Menard, Christine Yadlovski, Jürgen Weidner, Dimitri Waltritsch, Simone Spiga, Maria Paz, Pond, Darren van der Waart, Ines Quintero and many more.