Berlage Institute

Faculty Member, Postgraduate Lab (Urbanism, Architecture, Landscape)

About

Thomas Stellmach (*1975) is founding partner of UBERBAU Architecture and Urbanism in Berlin. Born in Freiburg, Germany, he has studied Architecture and Philosophy at FU Berlin, TU Berlin and UPC Barcelona with grants form the European commission. In 2003 he graduated from the chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse with the highest mark. He is an experienced urbanist and designer of a wide variety of projects ranging from small scale exhibition and interior design to large scale urban projects. Thomas focusses on design for complex urban situations, where issues conflict and merge.

Recent examples of his work are Europe’s largest urban design commission, Project A101 in Russia and the supervision of the UK’s largest residential development, Barking Riverside in London for the Rotterdam based practice maxwan a&u as well as an urban vision for the 2.6 Million people of Aleppo, Syria. He is currently investigating hybrid infrastructures with an research grant from the Dutch Stimulieringsfonds and conceiving a future for Paris’ precarious banlieue districts.

Besides directing his office, he teaches at the renowned Berlage Institute with a focus on complex urban processes. He conducted the ‘Urban Cookbook’ atelier finding recipes for sustainable urbanism at the Academie voor Bouwkunst, also in Rotterdam, and runs the online architecture and urbanism magazine dysturb.net. He was a guest lecturer on urban design and architecture at the University for Science and Arts in Aleppo, Syria. In 2010, he has lectured and conducted workshops at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, Strelka Institute in Moscow and the PRIC Conference in Baghdad. He recently won the prestigious competition for young architects Europan X with an urban plan for the city of Heidelberg in Germany.

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