Bernd Upmeyer (born July 2, 1973,

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) is a German

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and

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living and working in

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, where he opened his own architecture firm Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD) in 2005. He holds a Ph.D. in

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from the

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. Upmeyer is the author of the book ''Binational Urbanism – On the Road to Paradise''. In the book Upmeyer creates a theory of binational urbanism, a term coined by him. ''Binational Urbanism'' examines the way of life of people who start a second life in a second city in a second nation-state, without saying goodbye to their first city.

Life

Upmeyer studied

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and

urban design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban de ...

at the

and at the

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. Upmeyer is the

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of the German

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and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

Walter Upmeyer and the

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of the

and Government Building Assessor Dietrich Upmeyer. His

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was the

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and

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Almut Winckelmann (née ''Upmeyer'') and his great-great-grandmother was the Dutch Dina Maria Gompertz, who was born in

in 1857.

MONU Magazine

Upmeyer is the founder and the

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of the English-language,

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on urbanism MONU.

Atelier International Grand Paris (AIGP)

From 2012 until 2016 Upmeyer and his office BOARD were part of the group, led by the architecture firm STAR strategies + architecture, that has been chosen as one of the new six teams of

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and

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appointed by the Atelier International Grand Paris (AIGP) to be part of the

Scientific Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

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for the mission:

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: pour une métropole durable."BOARD is part of the Scientific Committee for the mission: Grand Paris"
. Retrieved on 9 January 2013.

Bibliography

*''Binational Urbanism – On the Road to Paradise'' (2015)

References

External links

Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design

MONU Magazine on Urbanism
{{DEFAULTSORT:Upmeyer, Bernd 1973 births Living people 20th-century German architects 21st-century German architects 21st-century Dutch architects Delft University of Technology alumni People from Göttingen University of Kassel alumni