Dr. phil. Dipl.- Ing. M.Arch. Jens Brinkmann, founder and head of this interdisciplinary studio, has spent over fifteen years making architecture that deals with the fundamentals of people’s quality of life. His body of work spans a broad range of executed and proposed projects of different scales and typologies, from private houses, institutional commissions, start-up and co-working offices, art installations, private, office and library furniture, a lakeside swimming pool and a pop-up restaurant on a frozen river.

Since 2019 Brinkmann holds a doctorade degree in Cultural Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). He worked with Jean Nouvel in Paris and in the office of Paulo Mendes da Rocha / MMBB Arquitetos as well as for Andrade Morettin Arquitetos in São Paulo. His articles about architecture, urbanism and metropolitan culture in Brazil have been published in renowned journals such as ARCH+ and BAUWELT/STADTBAUWELT.

He has lectured as a guest at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Universidade de São Paulo, the ENS d’Architecture de Paris La Villette and ESAP in Porto. From 2004 to 2012 he was an assistant professor at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU).

Brinkmann is a board member of the Association of German Architects in Berlin (BDA Berlin).