Peter Lorenz

Peter Lorenz was socialized in Innsbruck and founded his office there in 1980. In 1990 he opened the location in Vienna, later in 2020 also in Trieste. To date, around 500 projects have been designed, with just under a third realized. Currently active in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Italy, with a focus on urban planning, architecture, and spatial design. Some recent notable projects include the Medical University in Linz, ‘School on Market’ in Vienna, ‘BORA Projects’ in Germany (Raubling, Herford) and Austria (Niederndorf), the ‘Factory for Youth’ in Trieste, the ‘Sportcity Ilirija’ in Ljubljana, as well as several residential complexes in Vienna, including ‘Nussbaumallee’ and ‘Breitenfurterstraße’. Lorenz considers constant travel essential, enjoys teaching, and passionately engages in debates on urban planning and architecture in relation to the phenomena of nature, city, beauty, construction, economy and sustainability. Additionally, he serves as a multiple juror in design councils and architecture competitions and gives lectures both domestically and internationally. An international team in Innsbruck and Vienna collaborates intensively based on (post)humanistic approaches, striving with maximum effort to find the best solutions for spatial challenges. The tasks are diverse and encompass all scales – any form of specialization is perceived as limiting and is consciously avoided. He regularly appears at regional professional gatherings and conferences (e.g., Progres (Ljubljana), Rebec (Belgrade), BIG SEE (Portorož), sharing both theoretical and practical expertise. His spatial reflections have been published in various media, including Outsider, Hiše, Razpotja, and the daily Večer. Between 2012 and 2018 he was editor of the spatial portal Trajekt, in 2021–2022 a member of the editorial board of Outsider, and in 2023 he co-founded the magazine Ventilator. He occasionally participates in national and international architectural and urban design competitions with colleagues, earning several awarded solutions.

In 2019 he held a solo exhibition of his works, Discovering the Black Box, at the DESSA Gallery. In 2022 and 2023 he received the BIGSEE Interior Design Award for residential renovations. In 2025 he curated the SEE in Venice panel at the BIG Architecture Conference, bringing together regional representatives from national pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

He occasionally designs permanent spatial interventions in public space. In 2023, together with two co-authors, he won the competition for the Monument to the Erased in central Ljubljana, completed the same year. In 2024, he and a co-author won the competition for a spatial intervention in the future Povšetova neighborhood in Ljubljana. He is currently developing a design for a viewing platform overlooking the city of Podgorica, Montenegro.sectors.
Having been working in the IoT sector since 2016, she joined Libelium in February 2022 as International Business Development Manager to expand the business into new international markets. Africa is graduated in Arabic and Hebrew Philology by the University of Granada and the University of Cadiz. In addition, she has a Master’s degree in International Trade Management at ESIC: Business & Marketing School.