XML is an Amsterdam based creative agency operating in the fields of architecture, urbanism and research. XML is committed to designing architecture that both reflects and provokes contemporary ways of life. The office is fuelled by a research-driven approach that turns a careful analysis of a project’s core challenges into the driving force of design.
XML has received numerous awards and honors including two first prizes in the pan European architecture prize Europan. In 2014, the office was a finalist for the Prix de Rome prize, the oldest and largest Dutch state prize for Architects under 40.
The work of XML has been featured in numerous exhibitions and institutes, such as at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, the Dutch House of Representatives in The Hague and in the main exhibition of the 14th International Architecture Biennial in Venice.
XML is led by two partners, Max Cohen de Lara and David Mulder van der Vegt who founded the office in 2008. Along side of their architectural practice they are currently directors of the two year Master Program ‘Designing Democracy’ at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.