COMPANY PROFILE

ARCHITECTURE & SPATIAL DESIGN BURO

MÜLLER APRAHAMIAN is an architecture and spatial design practice founded in Beirut by Adrian Muller and Arine Aprahamian in 2018. Working between Beirut, Rotterdam, and London, the studio engages in projects ranging from architecture and interiors to exhibition design, public installations, and material or object research.

The practice takes a context-driven and practical approach, with a close relationship between architectural thinking and the craft of making, developed through testing, prototyping, and collaboration with local craftspeople. They work at different scales and focus on understanding what already exists, aiming to use the transformative potential of design to develop projects that are clear, thoughtful, and grounded in the needs of the users and their surroundings.

*Portrait of Arine Aprahamian & Adrian Muller – Beirut, Lebanon 2024 © Rolex / William Lacalmontie*

FOUNDERS Arine Aprahamian & Adrian Muller

Muller and Aprahamian both received Bachelor degrees in Architecture from the American University of Beirut. Adrian Muller holds a Master of Fine Arts in Designed Objects and in Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship. Arine Aprahamian received her Master of Architecture at UC Berkeley as a Fulbright Scholar.

They have both apprenticed with Pritzker-winning architects: Adrian Muller with the late Dame Zaha Hadid, and Arine Aprahamian as the 2023–2024 Rolex Protégée under Anne Lacaton of Lacaton+Vassal. Their previous experience also includes working with local design industry leaders such as Raed Abillama Architects and PS Lab.

With over a decade of experience—including commissioned work for the Tate Modern, the Venice Biennale, the Aichi Triennale, and the Whitney Museum, as well as proposals for labour housing, climate-adaptive dwellings, and digital spatial futures—the studio approaches materials, experience, and spatial design through a broad, cross-disciplinary lens.

Arine is based between Rotterdam and Beirut, while Adrian works between London and Beirut.

VISION & APPROACH

MÜLLER APRAHAMIAN approaches architecture as a meeting point between existing conditions, environmental awareness, material behaviour, and human experience. Their work focuses on:

The Value of the Existing: through retrofitting, adaptive reuse, and careful spatial optimization
Low-impact materials such as clay, terracotta, kershif and locally sourced earth systems
Industrial-Handmade: integration of craft and industry
Community-centered design and engagement

This approach allows the studio to work across different disciplines and scales, producing projects that are adaptable, contextually grounded, and environmentally responsive.

CURRENT & UPCOMING WORK

ARCHITECTURE

2026 | Iowa, USA – Horse Stables & Heritage House Renovation
2027 | Voorschoten, Holland – Renovation of Het Kruispunkt Kerk (100yr old church) into Community Center
2028 | Siwa, Egypt – Foxhole House; Farms Dwelling
2028 | Siwa, Egypt – Salt Lake Eco Lodge & Dwelling

Installation

EXPERTISE & SERVICES

ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS
Comprehensive architecture and interior design services, from new-build projects to bespoke interior fit-outs, renovations, and adaptive reuse.

SCENOGRAPHY & EXHIBITION DESIGN
Design of spatial environments for artists, institutions, and cultural events. Past work includes projects at Tate Modern, Venice Biennale, Aichi Triennale, Art Basel, and the Whitney Museum.

PRODUCT DESIGN & CERAMICS
Design and manufacturing of bespoke furniture, lighting, objects and wares for both private and public settings.

RESEARCH, ACADEMIA, AND CONSULTING
Strategic research and consulting on design, material systems, vision and cultural strategy.

TERRACOTTA INDUSTRY
Exclusive access to MULLER Industries, which brings together 4 generations of Lebanese craft heritage and German engineering in terracotta and clay systems.

EXHIBITIONS

We Design Beirut 2025 — Beirut, LB
Terraforma

La Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2025 — Venice, IT
The Value of the Existing

Dutch Design Week 2023 — Eindhoven, NL
3Phase House; a project for sustainable re-homing.

DEEP CITY: Climate change, democracy and the digital 2021 — Switzerland / Hong Kong / Singapore
Rolex Learning Center, EPFL Architecture
The University of Hong Kong
Singapore University of Technology and Design

FUTURE READY: Survival Now + Next 2020 — Anchorage Museum, USA

BELT & ROAD Machine & Industry Conference 2018 — Beijing & Guangzhou, CN

Museum of the Future; Dubai IDEAthon 2020 — UAE

Dalieh Watch Week – Pigeon Rock Monument 2018 — Beirut, LB

‘How Big is Architecture?’ 2018 — TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, Yerevan, Armenia

TALKS

MEXTRÓPOLI 2024
Home Is Where the Earth Is
Mexico City, August 2024

MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Anne Lacaton and Arine Aprahamian
“The Existing : the new material”
Boston MA, USA 2024

Vitra Design Museum
Global Local Architecture as part of Iwan Baan, Momente der Architektur
Germany, 2024

PARSONS, The New School
Navigating the Field: Business of Design
New York NY, USA 2023

American University of Beirut, Alumni Talks
School of Architecture & Design
Beirut, 2017