Bernd Upmeyer (born July 2, 1973, in

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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

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at the

and at the

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. Upmeyer is the

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of the German

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and

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Walter Upmeyer and the

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of the

and Government Building Assessor Dietrich Upmeyer. His great aunt 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

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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