Martin Jasper (born on November 14, 1979, in Guayaquil, Ecuador) is a German-Ecuadorian architect, founder of the architecture studio Jasper Architects, who designed the UP! Berlin building.
Martin Albert Jasper | |
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 Martin Jasper | |
| Born | Martin Albert Jasper November 14, 1979 |
| Nationality | German Ecuadorian |
| Alma mater | Universität der Künste Berlin, Politecnico di Milano, Facultad de Arquitectura Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Accademia di Belli Arti di Brera Milano |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Jasper Architects |
| Buildings | UP! Berlin |
| Website | https://jasperarchitects.com |
Career
editAfter graduating from high school in Santiago de Chile,[1] Martin Jasper was enrolled as an assistant painter of the Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín in Quito, Ecuador.[2] Jasper applied for Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) and moved to Berlin, where he won the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes scholarship.[1] He also studied at the Architecture School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile and at the Polytechnic University of Milan.[3]
He taught Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of the Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou, China.[4] He finished his academic training in fine art and painting at the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy.[2]
Jasper worked at the architecture studio Metrogramma Associati, in Milan[5] and at the Berlin office of English studio Foster + Partners.[4][2] In 2008 he founded his own studio, Jasper Architects, based in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Vienna.[6][7]
Martin Jasper obtained the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) certificate and has become a promoter and adviser of the DGNB around the world.[8][9][10][11] The DGNB promotes the construction of economical and sustainable buildings.[12]
In 2012, the Central Society of Architects of Argentina (SCA) presented Jasper with the First Prize for Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design for the project "Casa Eco Solar”, a self-sufficient building built in San Salvador de Jujuy.[13][14][15]
In 2016 Jasper won the competition to transform a mall of the Centrum Warenhaus chain once in East Berlin into a smart office building named UP! Berlin.[16][17] The mall was erected in 1979[18] next to East Berlin's Central Station (now Berlin Ostbahnhof)[19][20] and the transformation was finished in 2021.[21]