C,
Jens Casper Dipl.-Ing. Architekt BDADieffenbachstraße 47
10967 Berlin, Germany
mail@jenscasper.com
www.jenscasper.com
instagram.com/jenscasper
occupation
The practice of architect Jens Casper covers architectural consultancy, design, research and teaching. A 1998 graduate of RWTH Aachen University with a strong interest in urbanism, Jens has established a practice that focuses on reading, interpreting and intervening in the built environment. His built work includes cultural buildings and venues, exhibition spaces, interiors, and high end residential projects, most of them implemented in listed environments. Carried out in a variety of partnerships and co-operations, his work has been internationally recognised, published, and awarded numerous times. His best known works are the Berlin transformations Boros Collection Residence and Radialsystem III, the residence HHGO in Oldenburg, White Cube Bermondsey in London, Phoenixhalle in Dortmund, and the research project Das Garagenmanifest.
Jens is a founder and board member of the non-profit association Haus Döschnitz eV, a member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, of the Chamber of Architects of Berlin, and Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA Berlin. In 2010 Jens was appointed member of the Konvent der Baukultur der Bundesstiftung Baukultur.
Since 2004, Jens held multiple teaching positions. He was Assistant Professor at TU Berlin Technical University, and a Unit Master at the AA Berlin Laboratory. He worked as a Guest Professor with the Chair “Bauen im Bestand / Contextual Design” at BTU Cottbus 2010-12, and headed BTU’s International Postgraduate Architectural Design Programme carried out by 10 universities across Europe and Israel 2013-2014. Most recently he has been teaching at the intersection of architectural design and heritage preservation.
In 2023, he was appointed Professor for Design, Building Typologies and Architectural Theories (Entwerfen, Gebäudelehre und Architekturtheorie) at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt / Fachhochschule Erfurt.
In the same year he received an Artist Fellowship of the Federal Republic of Germany for a three-month residency at the German Study Centre Venice / Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.
Jens lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and summarizes his practice as C, since 2021.
co-operations / team
Jens has been developing new collaborations ever since he began his independent practice. He co-founded and established acclaimed architecture offices like Realarchitektur (Berlin) and Casper Mueller Kneer (London and Berlin), and has been contact architect to Berlin for international architecture firms like Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse (NL) and SADAR+VUGA (SLO).
cooperations and partnerships since 2003: Luise Rellensmann; Inside Outside / Petra Blaisse: Petra Blaisse, Aura Luz Melis, Nafsika Efklidou; Casper Mueller Kneer: Marianne Mueller, Olaf Kneer, with George Barer and Vicente Hernandez; KOPPERROTH Architektur und Stadtumbau: Marcus Kopper, Martin Roth; FORMATION A: Torsten Lockl and Lina Müller, with Benjamin Bosse, Robert Müller, Max Mütsch, Matthias Prüger, Teresa Riethmüller, Ana Roman; SADAR+VUGA: Jurij Sadar und Boštjan Vuga; chezweitz: Detlev Weitz, Sonja Beeck; mata: Matthias Peppler, Markus Tauber; Kai Nikolaus Grüne; Sören Hanft; Geo Reisinger; bbz landschaftsarchitekten: Timo Herrmann, Ellen Kallert; HHVH Landschaftsarchitekten: Inga Hahn; HMGB Heike Matcha, Günter Barzcik; StudioC: Nicole Zahner; Sven Pfeiffer; 3Design Architecture: Anthony Leon, John Wyatt; Realarchitektur: Petra Petersson, Andrew Strickland; ifau, Institut für angewandte Urbanistik: Christoph Heinemann, Christoph Schmidt, Susanne Heiss, Barbara Horst; Dominik Uhrmeister, Leonie Heilmann, Jens Bethke. Very special thanks to Mathis Burandt, Frank Skupin: neue tische.
team since 2003: Wolfgang List, Bernadette Krejs, Karin Maria Derix, Dorina Siewert, Ditte Waag, Polynikis Krimitsas, Stefan Saß, Rocco Zuehlke, Felix Zaiss, Stefan Kluth, Silvia Huth, Andreas Gülzow, Konstanze Schick, Elisabeth Eberenz, Matthias Grabe; Marian Manten, Max Dzembrizki, Nina Langner, Anja Retzlaff, Tobie Verleye, João Oliveira, and many many others involved within the different set-ups.
publications
Jens Casper / Luise Rellensmann:
Das Garagenmanifest
Park Books, Zürich September 2021
Casper, Jens / Rellensmann, Luise:
„Monumente der Verschmutzung“
„Denkmalpflege als Experiment“
Baunetzwoche #469, BaunetzMedia, 20.10.2016
(Download from Baunetz)
Casper, Jens / Rellensmann, Luise:
„Radikale Denkmalpflege“
(Radical Heritage Preservation)
on Rem Koolhaas‘ „Preservation is Overtaking Us“
(with a supplement by Jorge Otero-Pailos)
Baunetzwoche #394, BaunetzMedia, 22. January 2015
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