Studio Malka is a versatile architecture agency including scenography and art installations, interior architecture, design and artistic direction.
Since the creation of the studio in 2010, we have developed committed, forward-looking and innovative projects in response to major societal and climatic challenges: we offer solutions combining flexibility and modularity, frugality and upcycling, mobility and prefabrication, new manufacturing processes, construction methods and new digital uses constitute the very foundations of our work. Our studio include a research and development center applied to architecture, hybridizing new typologies and low-consumption technological research, applied to each of the projects.
Studio Malka creates unique, ultra-contemporary, innovative avant-garde and conscious architecture in programs as various as housing, office buildings, stage design, installations, and furniture design.
Each project is for us an opportunity to experiment with new uses in connection with the project.
The result is unique works, surprising places, where dreaminess and pragmatism, baroque and minimalism, sustainability and architectural sophistication meets.
Our guidelines?
Healing the City, rethinking it’s Architecture .
We aims to create new approaches and new uses while bringing innovative solutions, designing avant-gardist ways to inhabit, to work , to simply dine or to entertain in new immersive experiences, blending art and architecture in a humanist, positive, and sustainable way.
The results are originals and surprising places where onirism and pragmatism, baroque and minimalism, ecology and sophistication meets.
Stéphane Malka : A life in dates
2024 / Refurbishment La Main Jaune legendary nightclub, Paris
2023 / Book release of “Studio Malka”, the agency’s first monograph, published by Rizzoli, NYC
/ «Hip-Hop Architecture» exhibition at the Museum Of Design Atlanta & Helms Dsgn Ctr Los Angeles
2022 / Launch of the study; 15 modular pavilions at le Musée du Louvre, Paris
/Exhibition «Les Portes du Possible» au Centre Pompidou Metz
2021 / Launch of the study; French Embassy in Vienna, Austria
2020 / Book release of «Utopies Croisées» with Yona Friedman
2019 / Delivery of OxyGen, 2500m2 of hospitality and hanging gardens in La Défense
/ Exhibition « Eco-Visionnaries » at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
2018 / Delivery of Pernod-Ricard headquarters, Paris
2017 / Creation of Studio Malka Architecture Los Angeles, California
2016 / COP22 scenography in Marrakech, Morocco
2015 / Exhibition « Tactical Urbanisms For Expanding Megacities » at the MoMA, NYC
2014 / Book release «Le Petit Pari(s)» Gallimard
2013 / Partnership with Philippe Starck Network
2012 / Delivery of LoopCamp at Burning Man festival, Nevada 2011 / Lecturer at the Bauhaus School of Weimar, Allemagne
2010 / Exhibition at la Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris
2009 / Creation of Studio Malka Architecture
2005-9 / Collaborations with OMA Rem Koolhaas, Liebeskind, Mad Architects
2004 / Delivery of « Haut-Nid », first panoramic rooftop restaurant in Paris at les Galeries Lafayette
2003 / Architect DPLG diploma with honors
2002 / Delivery of the Black Block Art shop at le Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2001 / Collaborations with Ateliers Jean Nouvel
1996-00 / Stage-design deliveries for Thierry Mugler‘s Haute-Couture fashion shows
Multi-awarded by the French Ministry of Culture and the City of Paris, Malka’s works have been featured in media such as CNN, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Vogue, Frame, Mark, and Architectural Digest US, to name just a few.
His projects have been exhibited in internationally renowned museums and foundations including the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum & the AIANY Center for Architecture in New York, La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, the Victoria Museum in Sydney, the MODA in Atlanta, The MuBe in Sao Paulo, the Helms Design Center in Los Angeles, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada , the Smolny-Sobor Cathedral in St Petersburg, Arts_Santa_Monica in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou Metz or the Royal Academy of Arts in London .
Photo credits: Laurent Clément / Laurent Garbit
Render credits: Tristan Spella 2011/2016 / Mickaël Kaplan 2009/2010
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