Bene gained professional experience at HHF Architects in Basel, OMA/AMO in Rotterdam, and Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and Berlin. In 2020, he co-founded Panta Rhei Collaborative, is part of Zurich International, and works with KCAP Architects & Planners on projects in Switzerland. In 2024 he founded the architectural practice AFOUROSEVEN (A407) in Berlin and Zürich.
In 2021, he had the opportunity to teach as an assistant for KOSMOS Architects at the Porto Academy. Since 2023, he holds the position as a assistant professor at TU Berlin at the chair of Prof. Anupama Kundoo.
Engaged in diverse constellations, Bene works on projects of varying scales, aiming to experiment with innovative approaches to utilize existing resources.
Through the Initiative An.ders Urania, he actively opposes demolition policies in Berlin, striving to explore new alternatives for dealing with the built environment.
Teaching and Critques
2024 Critique
Yale University, Yale School of Architecture
2024-Today Assistant Professor
TU Berlin, FG Making Matters, Prof. Anupama Kundoo
2024 Critque
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute Urban Issues,
Prof. Andreas Quednau
2024 Critique
Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Prof. Johannes Kuehn
2023-2024 Assistant Professor
TU Berlin, FG DECO, Prof. Jan Kampshoff
2023 Critique
Berlin International, Studio Pierre Escobar
2021 Teaching Assistent
KOSMOS Architects, Porto Academy
2021 Workshop “The City as a University”
Floating University Berlin
2021 Critique
Münster School of Architecture,Presentations of the Master's Program
2013-2016 Student Assistant for Design and Constrction
Münster School of Architecture, Prof. Herbert Bühler
Exhibitions
2023 “Water Wareness”
With Panta Rhei Collaborative at Displays Zürich
2023 “Verdichtung oder Verdrängung”
With the MAS ETH GTA at ZAZ, Zentrum Architektur Zürich
2022 “No to War - Fundraising Auction”
MILK Space, Zürich
2022 “Dream Together”
With Panta Rhei Collaborative at Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, Georgia
2022 “Hardturmviaduct”
With Panta Rhei Collaborative at Oslo Architecture Triennale Neighbourhood Index
2021 “Postcards from the Immediate Future”
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
Research and Writings
2024 “Water Wareness”
Research at School of Commons, Published with HumDrum Press
2023 “Die Vergessene Partnerschaft”
Research at ETH Zürich, Program MAS ETH GTA
2023 “Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration”
Published at Womean Writing Architecture
2022 “Handeln (Lonely Church)”, Moritz Riesenbeck
Essay about St. John XXIII in Cologne
2021 “The City as a University”
Floating University Berlin
Lectures and Symposiums
2024 "Anecdotes and Interactions"
Münster School of Architecture
2024 "How Soon is Now?"
Part of the BI Summer School in Berlin
2024 Symposium “Substanz?”
With An.ders Urania at Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin,
organised by Initiative Marlene Poelzig
2023 "An der Urania 4-10"
With An.ders Urania at TU Berlin, organized by Roundabout e.V.
2023 “Water as Commons”
ETH Zürich, invited by Studio Maria Conen
2023 “Collaboration and the Commons”
Together with Kristin Lazarova at Leibniz Universität Hannover
2023 Sympoisum “Verdichtung oder Verdrängung”
ZAZ, Zentrum Architektur Zürich
2022 “Sensing Abundance”
Part of the Workshops “The Studio” organized by forty five degrees, Berlin
2022 “Dream Together about the Commons”
Goethe-Institut, Tbilisi
2022 “Concession Towards Multiplicity”
Part of the “(re)searching urbanity” symposium at Floating University, Berlin
2022 “An Interactive Rendezvous on Collaboration”
Part of the ‘Architectural Coffee Break’
organized by l’atelier Nomadic Architecture Studio
2022 “Raising Water-Wareness”
Part of School of Commons, ZHdK Zürich
2021 “Documenting the In-Between”
Münster School of Architecture
2021 “Where Edges Meet”
Part of ‘Mapping Heterotopias Summer School’ at TU Berlin
2020 “Collaborative Methodologies”
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2020 PRC x OSA, “What does it mean to Collaborate?”
Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio