Michaela Hauser – ATP’s First Female Partner

The architect and Managing Director of ATP Munich became a partner of ATP architects and engineers at the beginning of the year.

The first female partner to join the circle of owners (shareholders) of Europe’s leading integrated design company has enjoyed many steps along the path of her classic ATP career, from Associate to Associated Partner, from Group Leader and certified Project Manager to Managing Director.

“I see the fact that I am joining the partnership as a very special recognition of our team in Munich as well as a signal of appreciation for my work over the past few years. I am looking forward to an exciting time as a partner and to the opportunity to pay an even greater role in the strategic shaping and development of the whole company and, perhaps, to enrich the corporate culture even further with the occasional female insight”, said the architect, who has now been playing a leading role in Munich for eight years.

Michaela Hauser, who has Austrian roots but was born in Munich, enjoyed a short detour into the world of mathematics before studying architecture in the city. In 2013, following periods working for Peter Lanz and Grüner+Schnell in Munich and ten years as a project leader with Bothe Richter Teherani (BRT) in Hamburg, she returned to her hometown. She soon took over responsibility for ATP Munich, with its 30 architects, and has been successfully steering the office through some challenging times, largely as sole managing director, since 2016.

Since the beginning of this year, Michaela Hauser has been heading ATP Munich in a dual top management team alongside Thomas Mensch, who, as Joint Managing Director, is responsible for the area of engineering: “I see this elevation of my colleague as an excellent example of how we recognize unbelievable engagement, reliability, and intensive cooperation in our values-based company.”

With its 70 architects and engineers, ATP Munich is one of the large traditional offices in the ATP architects engineers network. ATP Munich is also one of five important providers of integrated design services in the ATP Group in Germany, alongside offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Nuremberg. Established in 1989, ATP Munich principally supports clients right across the Southern Germany.

The core competence of ATP Munich is integrated design with BIM, which has been standard across the ATP Group since 2012. This is a prerequisite for lifecycle-oriented buildings and for the reduction of the consumption of resources and the avoidance of waste in the design, construction, and operation of buildings.
The key areas of activity in Munich are the design of multifunctional centers, production, administration, and residential buildings, and urban planning projects. Current projects with important urban planning components include the high-rise commercial and residential building IN-Tower in Ingolstadt and the North Station Site in Rosenheim.

The ATP Group is one of Europe’s leading integrated design companies and has over 900 employees. With a headquarters in Innsbruck (AT) and eleven offices across the DACH and CEE Regions, ATP designs for clients from the industrial, real estate, transport, retail, and health sectors. This work is supported by a number of in-house ATP research, specialist design, and consulting companies.
The ATP partnership enables employees to assume responsibility for our company and to share in its success. Our Partners, Associate Partners, and Associates embody ATP’s corporate culture of interdisciplinary cooperation between architects and engineers.

