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Brooklyn, New York, United States
Paul Clemens Bart is German architect, entrepreneur and educator based in Brooklyn, NYC. He is founder of Urban Beta, where he is managing partner of the building technology company BetaPort Systems and the spatial innovation studio Beta Realities.
At his studio Paul works on participatory methods to create inclusive, unconventional and transformative spaces through predictive planning. Urban Beta and Beta Realities collaboratively work on new ways of social inclusion, as well as participatory approaches to co-design, both virtual and physical. The studio’s aim is the greater democratization of technology for construction and architecture with a strong focus on positive social and ecological footprints.
Paul’s work fuses emerging technologies, spatial innovation, future mobility, computational design and predictive planning into one holistic design approach. Urban Beta’s research has been backed by the Federal Government of Germany, covered by the “Future Construction” program: While the research project BetaHood became a model project of the “New European Bauhaus” initiative, the ecologic mobility hub BetaPort and its on-demand model for architecture is currently on display at various locations, including the GreenTech Festival, Expo Real and Week of Light Festival. 2023 Urban Beta was named 'Best New Practice of the Year' by ArchDaily.
Paul is actively engaged in the profession’s discourse, teaching at various universities, including the MIT SA+P, Pratt University, The Cooper Union, UCL The Bartlett and the Architectural Association London. He held visiting professorships at the Universidad Internacional SEK in Quito. As an invited speaker, he frequently lectures on spatial strategies, architectural innovation and the studio’s research at renowned universities, conferences, and public events, including the GreenTech Festival, Ars Electronica and DETAIL Congress for Transformation.
Paul holds a MSc (Dipl. Ing. Univ. eqv.) in Architecture from Technical University of Munich and a MArch from the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab in London.
He has over 10 years of industry experience in leading positions at renowned architectural offices such as Zaha Hadid Architects London and Bjarke Ingels Group NYC. His award-winning work has been patented and widely published in the trade press and media, such as WIRED Magazine, CNN Style, Bloomberg Business Week, the Financial Times and DETAIL Magazine. He has been exhibiting i.e. at the Architecture Biennale Venice, Experimental Architecture Biennale Prague and Nesta Future Fest London.