Our practice focuses on the transformation of existing conditions, raw and local material, from the territory to architecture that offers specific and poetic spatial answers.
studio mäc is an architecture practice based in Paris, Limousin and Frankfurt, founded in 2025 by Julia Mäckler and Augustin Clément.
We share a strong interest in the relationship between architecture and territory. We work with existing conditions, local resources and “savoir-faire” as project potential, across both urban and rural contexts. We stand for working with the existing and adopting a sustainable approach to our projects.
We seek simplicity, space & poetry.
Julia Mäckler is a co-founder of studio mäc, based in Paris, Limousin and Frankfurt since 2025. Prior to that, she led the Berlin office of Mäckler Architekten from 2020 to 2025.
Julia gained international experience working with Morris + Company in London in 2019, following several years at Max Dudler Architekten in Berlin and Munich between 2015 and 2018.
She holds a Master of Arts in Architecture from the Technical University of Munich (2018) and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam (2015).
Augustin Clément is an architect, teacher and co-founder of studio mäc.
He is the academic Head of 1st the year of architecture of EPFL at the laboratory ALICE with Prof. Dieter Dietez.
He is also a member of the comité d’experts for the project “Vassivière, île-Jardin” of the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassière.
Prior to that, he gained international experience at Herzog & de Meuron, and was a founding associate of Totem Architecture sàrl in Geneva until 2021. He taught design studios at the laboratories ALICE and LABA at the EPFL from 2027 to 2023 and territorial and urban design at BTU-Cottbus and the FH-Postdam in Germany from 2023 to 2025.
Augustin holds a Master of Science in Architecture (2013) and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (2010), both from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Exhibitions
Atlas of Lauchhammer - Exhibition and debate with the public about the students’ analysis of the territory of Lauchhammer in Brandenburg, Germany. BTU-Cottbus, 2025.
Transhumance - Back to the Future, Biennale Svizzera del Territorio with Ariana Frascoli and Capucine Fouquin. Istituto Internazionale di Architettura Lugano, 2024.
Zurich, les coopératives réinventent le logement social - exhibition at the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine. With Martin Lepoutre. Paris, 2020.
Publications
Let the wind take care of everything - 5 year of collaborative work between CEPV x ALICE-EPFL, MÖREL, 2023.
Manor Lessons - edition of the students work at LABA-EPFL, design by Helen Ebert, Park books, 2020.
Fez Lessons - edition of the students work at LABA-EPFL, design by Helen Ebert, Park books, 2019.
Portugal Lessons - edition of the students work at LABA-EPFL, design by Helen Ebert, Park books, 2018.