We are an international office based in Rotterdam, founded by Marieke Kums in 2010. It aims to create new environments for all kinds of people, at every imaginable scale; from urban regions to cities, from buildings to art installations. The studio develops projects that engage culture and consciousness, nature and artificiality, surrealism and pragmatism. The work strives to go beyond conventional values and scales, as the range of people's awareness is ever expanding in an age where it's possible to find out about almost anything in the world in an instant. The studio has worked on projects in the Netherlands and abroad, such as in Germany, Hong Kong and Japan.


Marieke Kums studied at the MIT in Boston and at Delft University of Technology from which she received her MSc Arch degree cum laude. Between 2003 and 2005 she worked with OMA / Rem Koolhaas and from 2006 to 2009 with SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima; Ruye Nishizawa in Tokyo.  Marieke has been invited as a visiting lecturer and external critic at various architecture schools and institutions, such as Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, the TU Delft, the Yokohama GSA, and Princeton. 

For the past 4 years Marieke was part of the advisory board of the Dutch Creative Industries Fund.




Studio Maks has won numerous international awards including the Young Talent Award by the Dutch Fund of Architecture & Visual Art, the Agrub Buchtal Newcomer Award. In 2014 Marieke was nominated for the Prix de Rome.       


2018 Mies van der Rohe Award, Nominated, Spain

2017 Kasper Salin Prize, Sweden
2017 Lund City planning prize, Sweden
2016 Villapriset, Molle by the sea, Sweden
2016 Glaspriset, Nominated, Sweden

2016 Trapriset, Nominated, Sweden

2013 Helgopriset, Nominated, Sweden

2012 Guldstolen, Sweden
2011 International Archttecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum, USA

2011 Skanes Arkitekturpris, Sweden
2011 Mies van der Rohe Award, Shortlisted, Spain
2011 Wallpaper Design Awards, Nominated, UK
2011 Contractworld, Nominated, Germany
2011 Kasper Salin Prize, Nominated, Sweden
2011 ECOLA Awards, Nominated, Germany
2010 World Architecture Festival, Highly Commended, Spain
2010 Lands krona Municipal Prize for Urban Planning, Sweden
2010 Hise Award, Innovative Excellence Private Housing
1999 Young Swedish Design, First Prize        
Studio Maks
Delftsestraat 33
3013 AE Rotterdam
The Netherlands
+31 10 2133030
info@studiomaks.nl