Max Utech is a licensed architect based in Paris and Vienna, working in the fields of urbanism, architecture and art. 

In his practice, teaching and curating he works across scales on un/built structures and design strategies that empower spaces towards a transformative, caring and enabling environment.

He has taught at the Research Departments of Housing and Design (2020-2024) and Urban Design (2017-2020) at TU Wien, at the Design Academy Eindhoven and has been guest reviewer at the AA London, ENSA Paris Belleville, ESA Paris, ENSA Versailles and Politecnico di Milano, among others.

Max Utech was awarded both the Schütte-Lihotzky (2021) and Hans-Hollein (2024) grants by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture. He has been a resident at Cité internationale des arts in Paris, at ZK/U - Centre for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin and was a fellow of LINA - the European Architecture Platform for Emerging Practitioners.

UHO

Since 2023 he is partner at UHO, a Parisian architecture studio founded by Max Turnheim, aiming to maximize the use of space while minimizing financial and ecological costs.

PALACE OF UN/LEARNING

Together with Bernadette Krejs he is founder of Palace of Un/Learning - a queer feminist practice that is exploring counter-hegemonic design strategies and experimental pedagogies for a queer-feminist spatial practice. They collaborated with Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Irish Architecture Foundation Dublin, Design Academy Eindhoven, Viper Gallery, UMPRUM Prague and Archfondas Vilnius. Their first major institutional exhibition took place in July/August 2025 at the DAZ – German Architecture Center Berlin.