ALLEN KAUFMANN ARCHITEKTEN is a Berlin-based architecture and design partnership founded in 2014, with roots in New York. Our work explores the fluid boundaries between architecture, art, and the built environment, moving deliberately across Projects, Objects, and Subjects: architecture and building-scale commissions, built interiors and renovations, furniture and joinery-led prototypes, and smaller experiments at the edge of art and fabrication.

In 2026, our project for Signa Sports United High Rise Tower was awarded ArchDaily Building of the Year (Interior Architecture). The project reflects our broader approach: a preference for coherence across scales, where layout, material decisions, and custom elements are conceived as one continuous logic. For Signa, we also designed custom furniture and implemented pieces from our Dovetail series.

Alongside commissioned work—restaurants such as 893 Ryotei in Berlin, Nice Dining in München, and workplace environments for teams like SumUp and Signa Sports United—we develop objects as “small architecture.” A patented wood-joinery invention became the basis for the DADO series, and current development continues through our DT (dovetail) work and new prototypes.

Our Subjects include interdisciplinary studies such as the Dwarfed Dead Cherry Tree installation in Upstate New York. Our practice is documented in A4 PAPERWORKS and A5 PAPERWORKS, two companion books that present a decade of work as a material archive: one curated and text-driven, the other a chronological visual ledger. The books share the same premise as the studio: restraint over ornament, material intelligence, and construction logic that remains legible—shaped by urban context, suburbia, and natural landscapes.