Erik Behrens

Erik Behrens (born 14 May 1975) is a German architect and designer.[1]

Erik Behrens
Born (1975-05-14) May 14, 1975
NationalityGerman
EducationKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
OccupationArchitect

Early life and career

In 2006 he moved to London to join EDAW to become a key member of the team designing the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy development.[2]

He has worked on several projects that have won various national and international honors and awards, including the prestigious International Architecture Awards of the Chicago Athenaeum.[3]

In 2020, the Al Wahda Arches, a 100-meter-tall immersive public artwork and national landmark in Qatar, was completed, attracting a lot of media attention to him.[4][5]

He worked as AECOM’s architecture design director and project leader on the reinvigoration of the 1994 built Waterloo International railway station.[6]

Awards
  • 2022 Chicago Athenaeum International Award – Al Wahda Arches
  • 2021: Chicago Athenaeum International Award – Oxygen Park[7]
  • 2018: ENR Best Global Projects Award – Lusail Expressway
  • 2017: Finalist World Architecture Festival – Oxygen Park
  • 2016: World Architecture News Future Project Award 2016 – Underwater Domes of Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2008: Shenzhen-Hong Kong Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture – Greenmetropolis
  • 2008: European Urban and Regional Planning Award- Greenmetropolis

Publications
  • Archplus, 168 Chinesischer Hochgeschwindigkeits Urbanismus, 2004, ISSN 0587-3452
  • MADA in Model, 2005, ISBN 7-80177-305-5/TU
  • Urban Landscape 07, Fuck the Context, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 2007
  • Updating Germany 100 Projects for a Better Future, Hatje Cantz Verla, 2008, ISBN 978-3775722629
  • New Geographies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934510-13-1.
  • Stadt Bauen, Deutscher Stadtebaupreis 2008, Jovis, ISBN 978-3-939633-88-4
  • Ecological Urbanism, Co-published by Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Lars Muller Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-3037784679
  • Territories, Die Stadt aus der Landschaft entwickeln, Birkhauser, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7643-8844-7

References
  1. "Revisiting the Green Lung of Education City". Scale. 5 July 2022.
  2. "Oxygen Park is a Green Lung in the Doha Desert". Azure. 10 October 2017.
  3. "The World's Foremost International Distinguished Building, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism Awards". Chicago Athenaeum.
  4. Design, Global (12 September 2022). "Erik Behrens' Gateway Arches for AECOM in Doha transform a monotonous highway infrastructure into a monumental work of public art". Global Design News.
  5. Behrens, Erik (1 December 2022). "soaring al wahda arches intertwine to mark qatar's thriving future & pearl-diving heritage". designboom, architecture & design magazine. Designboom.
  6. Photography, Jonathan Bell last updated Contributions from Hufton + Crow- (6 May 2021). "Waterloo Station terminal has got a new look". Wallpaper.
  7. Design News, Global (11 October 2021). "Erik Behrens and James Haig Streeter at AECOM devise a man-made 'green lung' park inspired by nature complete with balloon flights above the subterranean grounds". Global Design News.
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