JAN MEIER, LENA UNGER
MEIER UNGER, LEIPZIG
Jan Meier (*1980) and Lena Unger (*1986) founded Meier Unger in Leipzig in 2016. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and then worked for Bearth & Deplazes Architects in Zurich and for the chair of Prof. Andrea Deplazes at the ETH Zurich. Lena Unger also studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the ETH Zurich. She then worked for Conen Sigl Architekten in Zurich and was a research assistant at the TU Darmstadt. Since 2020, she has represented the professorship of urban architecture and design at the TU Kaiserslautern.
"We try to push the envelope of what is possible with a focus on constructive engagement. We put a lot of effort into meticulous elaboration, and try to give value and attention to each architectural element in the structure in order to extract the aesthetic spatial potential. In doing so, we constantly question seemingly established constructive solutions, production methods and manufacturing processes and try to assess them in the context of the current debate. We take pleasure in an element as well as in a whole construction method and see ourselves in our work as part of a collective of diverse disciplines and located in the context of an open-minded society."
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