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Bohn&Viljoen Architects is a London-based architectural practice and consultancy with a branch in Berlin. Established in 1999 by architects André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn, we specialise in sustainable urban design and low energy architecture and have gained international recognition for our focus on integrating anything food into design.

PHVision Heidelberg (2016-7)

Visionary conversion of an abandoned US-army estate into a 21st-century metabolic urban quarter

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2024-Jan-31 : Coming soon: The Urban Food Mapping book

Urban Food Mapping: Making visible the Edible City is now in print.

Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL) concept (2004)

Design-based research on the possibilities of integrating urban agriculture into design and planning

2023-Nov-30 : Coming soon: A book chapter on urban design for food

One of the contributions to Bohn’s and Tomkins’ edited volume Urban Food Mapping will be Katrin’s chapter on food opportunity mapping.

Plattform Produktives Stadtgrün (2018-20)

Participatory development of an online platform contributing to the green infrastructure strategy for Berlin

Second Nature Urban Agriculture (2014)

Writings on the potential of urban food growing as a 'second nature' within cities of the future

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2023-Oct-31 : Coming soon: The Urban Food Mapping book

We are pleased to announce the book Urban Food Mapping: Making visible the Edible City, edited by Katrin Bohn and Mikey Tomkins.

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Urbane Agrikultur in Köln-Ehrenfeld (2010-3)

Participatory design for a (food-)productive urban landscape as part of regeneration processes

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Spiel/Feld Marzahn (2011-4)

Particpatory live project with local residents on the creation of a food-productive space

Mapping the Edible City (2019-20)

Bohn&Viljoen co-convene and co-curate a conference panel on new theoretical and methodological directions of food mapping.

2021-Jun-21 : Editorial board selects proposals for Mapping the Edible City book

Eight-people-strong board selects more than 20 thematically, geographically and disciplinarily balanced contributions.

The Urban Agriculture Curtain (2009)

A fully-functioning hydroponic system as prototype for indoor, domestic-scale food growing

Fields & Floors / The productive resort @ UoB (2012/3)

Our Master's students explored productive architectures at two very different urban sites at the South Coast and in London.

2021-May-31 : Special Issue on sustainable food planning co-edited by Katrin

An open access Special Issue in the journal Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems was released in April.

The Continuous Picnic (2008)

Installation visualising the possible transformations of a Central London street into a food-focused public space

AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference Brighton (2010)

We are steering committee members of this AESOP group and hosted its 2nd international conference at the University of Brighton.

London Thames Gateway (2004)

Feasibility study about integrating productive urban landscapes into London's Eastern expansion areas

2021-May-17 : New initiative to support a LebensMittelPunkt in Berlin

Transformation Haus und Feld invited Berliners to its kick-off meeting about the capital’s decommissioned inner-city airport.

A piece of weather / The bathhouse year @ UoB (2007/8)

Starting with an exploration of weather-related phenomena, students went on to design an ecologically-sensitive bathhouse.

Urban Farming Project Middlesbrough (2006-7)

City-wide urban food-growing project as part of a design-led initiative in the UK’s Northeast