Jan Ulmer

Jan Ulmer is a member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects and principal at Jan Ulmer Architects, which he founded in 2007. Jan Ulmer Architects implements projects that range in scale from public buildings in urban contexts to furniture design. The firm has realized several significant stand-alone residential commissions, exhibition designs and building conversions. Current works include a large-scale exhibition in Strasbourg, single family houses in Germany and Switzerland and prefabricated modular housing units (in collaboration with artist Simon Dybbroe Moller).

Jan Ulmer Architects has been honored with several international approved design awards, most recently the 2015 Velux Jury Award. The team won prizes in significant design-build competitions, notably the first prize in the international competition for the 2010 German Pavilion in India. These successes have earned Ulmer invitations to jury well-recognized national competitions.

Since 2014, Jan Ulmer is a visiting professor for graduate studios at Washington University Sain Louis. In 2013 Jan taught exhibition-design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. From 2007- 2011 he was a lecturer and research associate at Leibniz University Hannover working in the Institute for Design and Building Typology. There he developed course curriculum and taught undergraduate/graduate studios, along with degree projects and various seminars.

After graduating with his masters in architecture from the University of the Arts Berlin in 2001, Ulmer worked as a project architect at Kuehn Malvezzi from 2002-2007. There he directed projects such as the Friedrich Flick Collection Berlin and the Julia Stoschek Collection Dusseldorf, which was nominated for the international Mies van der Rohe Award.

Architektur Berlin, Baukultur in und aus der Hauptstadt Band 2, page 140-141, 2013
PIN-UP Spring/ Summer 2012
Bauwelt 45/2010
Interview German Architects 12.21.2010
Wettbewerbe Aktuell 01/2011

Competitions and Awards
2015 Velux Award 1st Price (Jury)
2012 Vibia Award 2nd Price
2010 German Pavillion India 1st Price
2010 Booth for the National Chamber of Architects Honorable Mention
2009 Visitors Center Forum Terra Nova 2nd Price
2008 Back to the City Honorable Mention

Realised Work
2015 House K Schaffhausen 200 m2 Single Family House
2014 House G Munich 340 m2 Single Family House
2014 House P Stuttgart 800 m2 Apartment Building
2013 House L Zurich 150 m2 Cottage
2013 House E Munich 250 m2 Single Family House
2011 Thrill Art Strasbourg 1.200 m2 Exhibition Design
2011 Art Berlin Contemporary 6.500 m2 Exhibition Design
2011 Gallery Susanne Zander Cologne 200 m2 Galleryspace
2010 House H Stuttgart 200 m2 Single Family House
2010 Loft M92 Berlin 100 m2 Loft Apartment

Teaching
2014 Visiting Professor Architecture and Design Washington University Saint Louis (US)
2013 Visiting Professor Exhibition and Design University of Art and Design Karlsruhe
2007- 2012 Lecturer and Research Associate Architecture and Design Leibniz University Hannover Prof Léon
1998- 2001 Teaching Assistant Architecture and Design University of the Arts Berlin Prof Grazioli

Education and Qualification
2001 – 2007 Project Architect Kuehn Malvezzi Berlin
1998 - 2001 Master of Architecture University of the Arts Berlin
1993 – 1998 Bachelor of Architecture ETH Zurich
1972 Born in CH Schaffhausen

References
Julia Stoschek, Julia Stoschek Collection Schanzenstrasse 54 40549 Dusseldorf T 0211 585 884 0
Susanne Zander, Gallery Susanne Zander Antwerpener Strasse 1 50672 Cologne T 0221 52 16 25
Klaus Gira Pasit Sonnenstrasse 19 80331 Muenchen T 089 59 46 55
Prof Hilde Léon Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architects Leibnizstrasse 65 10629 Berlin T 030 327 600 0
Prof Wilfried Kuehn Kuehn Malvezzi Architects Heidestrasse 55 10557 Berlin T 3980 68 00