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Erik Behrens

Erik Behrens is working at the forefront of urban development projects within Europe and Asia. He is a former Assistant Professor in practice of urban design and development, focussing his interest on our transforming cities and changing relationships between the built environment, human activities, commerce and culture.

Over the last years, he has built up a distinguished body of work by collaborating with the American urbanist Prof. Alex Wall, AA Dipl., the French landscape architects Agenceter and Qingyun Ma with his Shanghai-based office MADA s.p.a.m. In 2006 he joint EDAW as a design consultant and is currently playing a key role in the management team leading a multi-disciplinary team delivering the masterplans and park design for the Olympic Games in London in 2012.

Besides winning several international design competitions, his work for the cross-border development of a former coal mining region for the European Union, has been recognized with a German Urban Development Award 2006. He has lectured and exhibited internationally including the Venice and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale and the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. He has directed research and design studios on the contemporary city at the University of Karlsruhe. He is a chartered city planner and holds a masters degree in architecture and urban design.