BOARD (Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design) is a Rotterdam based office, that has been founded in 2005. BOARD is active in many fields: as an architecture and urban design practice, as an academic research board and as a platform for comparative analysis on urban issues through its bi-annual journal MONU - magazine on urbanism. BOARD has won several prices recently in prestigious international architecture and urban design competitions. Among others: The New Headquarter for Wexford County Council in Ireland; the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, Estonia; and the House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2006 BOARD has collaborated with STAR - strategies + architecture and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) to update the study "The Image of Europe" that has been exhibited in April 2006 in the center of Vienna in Austria during Austria's presidency of the European Union. In 2008 BOARD has been suggested as one of the "Top Ten emerging offices under 40" in the Netherlands by NIB (New Italian Blood) in collaboration with Hans Ibelings and the A10 Magazine.
Bernd Upmeyer is the founder of BOARD and editor in chief of MONU - magazine on urbanism. He studied architecture and urban design at the University of Kassel (Germany) and the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). In 1999 he was awarded with the prestigious biannual research award "Deutscher Studienpreis" donated by the Koerber Stiftung for a study project about new urban design methods and in 2000 he was awarded with an Architecture Schollarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Before opening his own practice, he worked in several Dutch architecture offices among others: NL Architects and Bosch Architects.From 2004 until 2008 he has been teaching and researching as Assistant Professor at the department for Urban and Architectural Studies at the University of Kassel. Currently he is teaching as Adjunct Professor at the department of Urban Design at the HafenCity University Hamburg and is working on his PhD on Transnational Urbanism.
