Education
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies from the University of Kassel.
Living and working in Rotterdam where he opened his own architecture firm Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD) in 2005. Upmeyer is the author of the book Binational Urbanism – On the Road to Paradise. In the book Upmeyer creates a theory of binational urbanism, a term coined by him.
Binational Urbanism examines the way of life of people who start a second life in a second city in a second nation-state, without saying goodbye to their first city.
Upmeyer studied architecture and urban design at the University of Kassel and at the Delft University of Technology. Since June 2012 Upmeyer and his office BOARD are part of the group, led by the architecture firm STAR strategies + architecture, that has been chosen as one of the new six teams of architects and urban planners appointed by the to be part of the Scientific Committee for the mission: Grand Paris: pour une métropole durable.