aboutJens Casper was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1967. Studies in architecture at the RWTH, Technical University in Aachen, where he graduated in 1998; until 2003 he was employed in several architects offices in Berlin, Cologne and Aachen, and worked on the building design for governmental administrations & media corporations such as the German Embassy in Tokyo, Kirch Media Group in Munich and DeutschlandRadio in Berlin. In 2003 founding of Realarchitektur, Berlin based architectural practice, which was among 101 of the world´s most exiting new architects in the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2007. In 2008 Jens quit Realarchitektur to start new collaborations, and to run an independent office: Büro Jens Casper based in Berlin-Kreuzberg. He's a founding partner of Casper Mueller Kneer Architects Ltd est. 2010 based in London and Berlin.
Jens was a tutor at the Department of Planning Theory and Urban Development RWTH Aachen 1992-94.
He held a teaching position at Berlin Technical University 2004-06, teaching architectural design with Tim Heide and Marianne Mueller,
and was a Unit Master within the AA Berlin Laboratory of the Architectual Association taking place in Berlin in 2009.
In 2010 he held a lectureship at Berlin Technical University, chair for Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum,
and he currently holds a Guest Professorship at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. Since 2007 he's a member of BDA, Bund Deutscher Architekten / Association of German Architects, in 2010 he was a member of the Konvent der Baukultur der Bundesstiftung Baukultur. He lives in Berlin, Germany. His practice is involved in a variety of projects at different scales, ranging from 1:1 interventions to urban design strategies. His work reflects the tangible material organisation of space as well as the immaterial and negotiable realities shaping it, and has been awarded numerous prizes. collaborations, collaborators and helping handsPetra Petersson (running Realarchitektur on her own) & Andrew Strickland (co-founder of Realarchitektur), Wolfgang List aka CosmicW (divany), Bernadette Krejs, Karin Maria Derix, Dorina Siewert, Ditte Waag (all Realarchitektur), Mathis Burandt, Christoph Heinemann, Susanne Heiss, Barbara Horst, Christoph Schmidt (all ifau, Institut für angewandte Urbanistik), Timo Herrmanns (bbz.landschaftsarchitekten), Dominik Uhrmeister, Marianne Mueller, Olaf Kneer (mueller kneer associates), Sören Hanft (Shanft), Sven Pfeiffer (Digitales Entwerfen und Konstruieren / msa muenster school of architecture), Nicole Zahner (StudioC), Torsten Lockl, Lina Müller (FORMATION-A), Heike Matcha, Günter Barzcik (HMGB), Polynikis Krimitsas, Stefan Saß, Rocco Zuehlke, Felix Zaiss, Stefan Kluth, Silvia Huth, Andreas Gülzow, Matthias Grabe, Konstanze Schick, Elisabeth Eberenz, Max Dzembrizki, Borja González Ferrer-Vidal... |