Atelier Loidl has pursued an open and discursive design process since its founding in 1984. Based in Berlin, Germany’s capital, the office has grown to around 30 employees. Today, Atelier Loidl is led by Carole Blessner, Bernd Joosten, Leonard Grosch, Martin Schmitz and Felix Schwarz. We believe that design should emerge from an intensive, collaborative process. Our work is therefore not defined by repetitive stylistic signatures, but by the search for tailored and self-evident concepts that respond directly to people’s needs, to the unique conditions of each site, and increasingly to the ecological challenges of our time.
Both the conceptual approach and the detailed development of our projects reveal a strong sense of individuality and clarity. These qualities stem from our understanding of the city as a texture, the site as both a given and an opportunity, and design as the precise formulation of circumstances and needs through a reduced design vocabulary.
Our projects always involve deep engagement with urbanism. The city is not only the starting point of our thinking, but also where most of our ideas are realised. Our approach to urban and landscape design is rooted in a fundamental principle: the city as texture. This texture arises from the interplay of landscape and built form, producing spatial concentration and density. Such density creates complexity and diversity, which are essential not only for social life, but also for ecological richness.
We therefore integrate elements of urban wilderness into our designs, allowing spontaneous vegetation, microhabitats and climate-adapted planting schemes to coexist with precisely designed spaces. By fostering a mosaic of structured and untamed areas, we contribute to an urban environment that supports biodiversity and strengthens ecological networks. In this way, the city becomes a living fabric that invites inhabitants to interact with its elements, make them their own and experience the richness of urban nature.
We create simple, precise and generous places. We have no interest in superficial effects or the overstimulation of today’s event culture. Everyday spaces reveal their poetry through clarity, simplicity and a sense of timelessness. We trust in the strength of minimal, well-considered landscape architectural means, finding suitability, purpose and sensuality in them. At the same time, we see reduction not as an aesthetic gesture, but as an ecological one: a way to create resilient environments where people, plants and animals can thrive together.
Published on February 8, 2026
