André Schmidt was trained at the Ecolde Nationale Superiore d’architecture de Paris-Belleville and at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, KIT. Shortly after his graduation he joined OMA Asia in 2000 in Hong Kong, where he worked on projects in Korea such as the SK-Telecom Headquarters building in Seoul.Back in Europe he gained further experience with the German-French firm LIN Finn Geipel on various projects in Germany before he joined Pritzker Prize laureate Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam for the CCTV headquarters project in 2003. André started with the masterplanning and later joining the team for CCTV’s sibling TVCC.In 2005 he transferred to Beijing, where he acted as project architect for TVCC. During this pre-olympic period, he published a book on Beijing's rapid urban transformation. André successfully led the design competition for the Taipei Performing Arts Center, which is currently under construction. He stayed with OMA as Associate until January 2009, when he relocated to New York to take on a teaching assignment as a visiting critic at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence.In 2010 André moved to Denmark to work with BIG and lead numerous large scale projects, including super-tall high rise projects, as project director and Associate. He stayed with BIG until the end of 2013. During his professional career, André has gained extensive international work experience within Europe and Asia. Since 2014 André has been the principal of MATTER, a practice for Architecture and Urbanism based in Berlin.