Mumuth - UNStudio

The MUMUTH - Haus für Musik und Musiktheater, a faculty building for the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), had been ten years in the making, including two years of construction and was officially opened on March 1st 2009. The new Music Theatre, designed by Ben van Berkel of the renowned Dutch architecture firm UNStudio, has already formed the Austrian contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture. “The desire to make a building that is as much about music as a building can be, has been a constant throughout the nearly ten years that it took to build the theatre and the themes that are at the basis of the building and its overall organization have also endured throughout this time,” says Ben van Berkel.