Office Profile
Jan Braker Architekt is an architecture and urban planning office based in Hamburg, known for our bold use of diverse morphological references to create daring and challenging spaces that meet user needs while respecting the environment and sustainable technologies. We place high importance on the cultural context, natural surroundings, and material use in each site we work on. Each project is seen as a welcome challenge to develop bespoke solutions in close collaboration with clients and users. User participation in the design and decision-making process is crucial to creating successful, transparent, and passionate projects.
Our portfolio includes the foyer design for the Hanover University of Music and Theatre, numerous kindergartens and schools, housing projects, and complex renovations of listed buildings in Hamburg. Additionally, we have extensive international experience in planning and executing large-scale transport projects, shopping centres, cultural venues, and office buildings, in collaboration with Ritchie Studio in London (Jan Braker Architekt is a member of Ritchie Net). Our passion for developing and implementing spatial and material concepts drives our work, alongside examining cultural questions and collaborating with international planners and institutions. We manage projects from the conceptual phase through detailed planning to final on-site completion. In addition to our design department, we have a dedicated research division that explores innovative methodologies and up-to-date solutions to contemporary design and urban planning challenges, with several publications highlighting our findings.
Our team comprises highly motivated and innovative architects from diverse cultural backgrounds, bringing a broad range of expertise and talents. Our outstanding collaboration and communication skills create the ideal environment for creative design. At Jan Braker Architekt, our goal is to provide client-focused service through responsible practice and responsive architecture. Our professionalism, dedication, and unique client-architect relationships attest to this goal as we strive for excellence in bringing our clients' ideas to life.
Office Profile
Jan Braker Architekt is an architecture and urban planning office based in Hamburg, known for our bold use of diverse morphological references to create daring and challenging spaces that meet user needs while respecting the environment and sustainable technologies. We place high importance on the cultural context, natural surroundings, and material use in each site we work on. Each project is seen as a welcome challenge to develop bespoke solutions in close collaboration with clients and users. User participation in the design and decision-making process is crucial to creating successful, transparent, and passionate projects.
Our portfolio includes the foyer design for the Hanover University of Music and Theatre, numerous kindergartens and schools, housing projects, and complex renovations of listed buildings in Hamburg. Additionally, we have extensive international experience in planning and executing large-scale transport projects, shopping centres, cultural venues, and office buildings, in collaboration with Ritchie Studio in London (Jan Braker Architekt is a member of Ritchie Net). Our passion for developing and implementing spatial and material concepts drives our work, alongside examining cultural questions and collaborating with international planners and institutions. We manage projects from the conceptual phase through detailed planning to final on-site completion. In addition to our design department, we have a dedicated research division that explores innovative methodologies and up-to-date solutions to contemporary design and urban planning challenges, with several publications highlighting our findings.
Our team comprises highly motivated and innovative architects from diverse cultural backgrounds, bringing a broad range of expertise and talents. Our outstanding collaboration and communication skills create the ideal environment for creative design. At Jan Braker Architekt, our goal is to provide client-focused service through responsible practice and responsive architecture. Our professionalism, dedication, and unique client-architect relationships attest to this goal as we strive for excellence in bringing our clients' ideas to life.
Jan Braker
Dipl.-Ing. Architect, Member of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects, RIBA & ARB in the UK
Jan Braker studied architecture at TU Berlin/Germany, and the Carleton University in Ottawa/Canada. After graduating, he moved to London to work at Ian Ritchie Architects. During his ten-year stay, he had the opportunity to work intensively on the planning and realization of a variety of projects, ranging from a shopping centre with several rapid transit stations in the centre of London, a subway line in Singapore, to a theatre workshop in Plymouth in addition to other typologies. Braker was also responsible for the implementation of the conversion and extension of Ian Ritchie Architects’ office. In 2008 Jan Braker went back to Hamburg and started his own office. Initially in a partnership, then in 2011 he established Jan Braker Architect. Since then, the office handled a variety of projects from the design concept until the realisation on site. In addition to his work as a practicing architect, Braker also held a position as a lecturer at the University of Greenwich, London, from 2007 to 2011, where he conducted a diploma design seminar. In 2011, he was a visitor professor at the Modern Sciences & Arts university (MSA) in Cairo, in which the city centre of Cairo was investigated through a design seminar.
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Dr Bedour Braker
Architect, M.Sc., Ph.D., Member of the Egyptian Syndicate for Architects in Cairo
Dr.Bedour Braker is an architect and researcher based in Germany. Her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Architecture & Urban Planning were received from Cairo University in the years 2001, 2007 and 2012. Right after her graduation, Braker started her academic career and taught architecture and urban planning for 13 years in two universities (MSA & AUC) in Cairo. In addition to her teaching experience, Dr. Braker arranged many collaborations between a number of Egyptian and European universities, which involved annual students exchange; several visits to different European cities; and teaming-up with local and international experts in order to find possible strategies that would enhance the intricate situation in some chosen areas as pilot case-studies. From 2004 till 2013 she was responsible of establishing a long-term partnership between MSA University in Cairo and University of Greenwich in London. Since she moved to Germany, Dr. Braker has participated in several international conferences, workshops and competitions within Europe and the Middle East. Her publications deal with spatial planning, mainly investigating the modes of privatisation of the public realm in contrast to bottom-up initiatives to reclaim public spaces. Since 2013, Bedour Braker joined Jan Braker Architect as the head of research department.
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David Joesel, Germany
Lovis Winter, Germany
Zoe Ko, South Korea
Rana ElRashidy, Egypt
Agata Malinowska, Great Britain
Rushabh Gada, India
Rachael Milliner, Great Britain
Nurcan Eren, Germany
Petra de Haan, Germany
Pharnyada Pakdeepatthapee, Thailand
Vincent Phang, Indonesia
Natalia Ramirez, Columbia
Magda Gauden, Poland
Pedro Martins-Mourao, Portugal