Juergen Benson-Strohmayer is a chartered architect in Austria and Ghana whose work explores architecture as a tool for social and environmental transformation. He is the founding architect of TAELON7, a practice that moves between architecture, research, and making — always beginning with a question: what if space could be a tool for liberation?

Over the past decade, Juergen has lived and worked in Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Austria, developing a prolific body of built work that responds to context, collaborates with communities, and challenges normative ways of building and being. From art campuses and surf houses to pavilions, galleries, and eco-industrial hubs, his architecture questions norms, prejudices, and assumptions — proposing spatial futures that are both grounded and visionary.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Belvedere Museum Vienna, Shibaura House Tokyo, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Rome. He is the recipient of several international recognitions, including the Holcim Gold Award for Sustainable Construction, and has been nominated for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and awarded the Tische Stipendium for Young Architects.

Juergen has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, and has contributed to academic platforms such as the African Futures Institute, Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, and the University of the Witwatersrand — participating in global conversations on architecture, ecology, and urbanism.