Join Woodbury School of Architecture in San Diego for a lecture by聽Sonja Nagel and Jan Theissen, founding partners of Amunt.聽Amunt started in 2009 as a collaboration between Bj枚rn Martenson (1966), Sonja Nagel (1972) and Jan Theissen (1972), with independent offices in Aachen and in Stuttgart.
Sonja Nagel & Jan Theissen Lecture
Friday April 12th at 2:30pm
2212 Main St, San Diego, CA 92113
Bj枚rn Martenson graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Rheinisch-Westf盲lischen Technischen Hochschule (RWTH) at Aachen University in 1997. He has been a teaching assistant at the Wuppertal Universit盲t and at the RWTH Aachen University. Sonja Nagel graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Akademie der Bildenden K眉nste Stuttgart in 2002. She has been a teaching assistant at the Akademie der Bildenden K眉nste Stuttgart and a visiting professor at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in D眉sseldorf. Jan Theissen studied industrial design in Saarbr眉cken and Eindhoven and graduated from the Department of Industrial Design of the Hochschule der Bildenden K眉nste in Saarbr眉cken in 2000. He also studied architecture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1999 and at the Akademie der Bildenden K眉nste Stuttgart, where he graduated from the Department of Architecture in 2003. He has been a teaching assistant at the Akademie der Bildenden K眉nste Stuttgart and a visiting professor at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in D眉sseldorf. Currently he is a visiting professor at the Technische Universit盲t in Darmstadt.
The JustK House in T眉bingen was their first joint project. Among other prizes, they have been awarded the Wei脽enhof-Architekturf枚rderpreis for Young Architects in 2010, the Hugo-H盲ring-Prize in 2011, and the German Architecture Prize in 2013. Their JustK project won first prize at the international AR-Awards in 2011. Their Schreber project, the renovation and extension of a miner鈥檚 house, was presented in the German Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Reduce/Reuse/Recycle exhibition.