Dea Ecker. Born in Heidelberg, Dea Ecker spent her formative years in Buchen, Germany, a rural village in North Baden. Dea received her DiplomIngenieurin, summa cum laude, from the College of Architecture, University of Karlsruhe in 1991. After working in Leipzig as a professional for three years,she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study contemporary housing strategies in Chicago in 1995. In 1997, Dea completed her Master of Architecture and Urban Planning at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, founded by Mies van der Rohe. In 2000, Ms. Ecker established Ecker Architekten with her partner, Robert Piotrowski in Germany. Dea was elevated to Fellowship in the Bund Deutsche Architekten (BDA) in 2007.
