René Pier

Extensive knowledge, outstanding creativity, passionate commitment and his enduring – youthful – thirst for knowledge and curiosity are qualities for which René Pier is valued in national and international interior design projects. Innovation is not just a buzzword for him, but is based on many years of professional experience and constant interdisciplinary debate in order to apply it in a beneficial way, preferably as a strategic instrument.

CV – Born in Aachen, Germany, René Pier studied Interior Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Trier and at Kansas State University / USA. Afterwards he founded his own office, from which the office SCHIENBEIN+PIER emerged in 2000. Parallel to his work in the office, René Pier has taught as an assistant lecturer at the HFT (University of Applied Sciences for Technology) in Stuttgart in the IMIAD (International Master of Interior- Architectural Design) master’s course since 2016. As a Member of the Executive Board, Architects’ Chamber Baden-Württemberg, and through his extensive lecturing activities, René Pier is networked in the business worldwide. In 2019 he was appointed member of the workgroup to update the ECIA charter of Interior Architecture Training. In this function as an ambassador for promoting the charter and consultant at AQUIN, accreditation agency he is responsible for the accreditation of universities in Germany. In September 2025 he was elected member of the board of the ECIA.