Jonas Coersmeier is an award-winning architect

Architect

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 and designer

Designer

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, born in Germany and working in the United States. He is finalist

Final (competition)

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 and first runner-up

Runner-up

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 in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. He was born in Cologne, Germany and studied architecture at Columbia University

Columbia University

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, M.I.T. and Technical University Darmstadt. He has taught at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture

Pratt Institute School of Architecture

The Pratt Institute School of Architecture is ranked in the top ten best Architecture schools in the nation. Alumni include Pritzker Prize Winner Peter Zumthor. Within the Brooklyn campus, the school of architecture is located a block from the main campus in Higgins Hall...

, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

University of Pennsylvania School of Design

The University of Pennsylvania School of Design is the design school of the University of Pennsylvania. It is currently ranked 3rd in urban planning by The Best Colleges, 10th in urban planning by Planetizen, and 8th in architecture by DesignIntelligence...

 and University of Kassel

University of Kassel

The University of Kassel, founded in 1970, is one of the newer universities in the state of Hesse. The university is in Kassel, and as of September 2010 has about 18,113 students...

 School of Architecture, where he was head of the Digital Design Department.

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• bbcaa.com
• coersmeier.org
• wtcsitememorial.org
• de.wikipedia.org