Max Dudler was born at Alterhein in Switzerland in 1949. His academic formation was at the Städel Schule of Frankfurt with Günter Bock and the Fine Arts Academy of Berlin with Ludwig Leo.
In 1986 he started his own office in Frankfurt, together with Karl Dudler and Pete Welbergen. In 1992 he opened an office in Berlin (now the main office with more than 60 employees) as well as in Zurich and Frankfurt. In twenty years the activity of the office has extended to include diverse contexts, from town planning to reconversion, from monument safeguarding to interior design. His architectural work alternates with teaching engagements in various European universities which include, in particular, the guest chairs in the Faculty of Architecture IUAV of Venice (1990-1998) and in the “Aldo Rossi” architecture faculty in Cesena (2005-2006). Max Dudler was professor at the Sommerakademie für Architektur in Mantua in 1990 and from 1993 to 1995 in Naples.  Since 2004 he has been professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, in the Baukunst department.

His most important projects include: the Schwarzes Café in Frankfurt, the BEWAG Transformer Substation, the office high rises and commercial spaces facing the North Station in Mannheim, the Elementary school and all-inclusive teaching institute, the Federal Transport, Infrastructures and Urban Development Ministry in Berlin, l’Hotel 65 a Mainz, the Main Office for IBM in Zurigo, the Diocesan Library in Münster, and the High Rise Building Complex in Ulmenstraße in Frankfurt. The “Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum” in Berlin, the Castel of Hambach at Neustadt an der Weinstraße, the Sihlpost in Zurich, the new visitator centre of Heidelberg’s Castel and the New City Center at Reutlingen. Many of his works have received awards and honorable mentions. The Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum in Berlin won the BDA Preis Grosse Nike in 2010 and also the “Deutsch Natursteinpreis, Deutscher naturwerkstein- Verband E.V.