BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research and Design). Architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded in 2005 by Bernd Upmeyer. The office is active in many fields: as an architecture and urban design practice, as a research board, and as a platform for comparative analysis on urban issues through its independent, non-conformist, niche publication MONU – Magazine on Urbanism.
BOARD won several prizes, recently in prestigious international architecture and urban design competitions. From 2012 until 2016 BOARD, together with STAR, was part of the Scientific Committee of the Atelier International Grand Paris (AIGP) for the mission: Grand Paris: Pour une Métropole Durable.
Bernd Upmeyer holds a PhD in Urban Studies (Dr.-Ing.) from the University of Kassel, Germany. He is the author of the book “Binational Urbanism – On the Road to Paradise”, in which he creates a theory of binational urbanism, a term coined by him.
