#113 Architecture, Engineering & Ancestral Wisdom with Elke Sterling-Presser and Nicolas Sterling.

Elke Sterling-Presser and Nicolas
Sterling are the founders of STERLING PRESSER ARCHITECTS
+ ENGINEERS in Berlin an interdisciplinary practice that brings
architects and civil engineers together from the outset and where
structural logic and spatial experience are conceived as one. We
speak with Elke and Nicolas about their approach embodied in
projects such as the Theater Park Bridge in Taiyuan, China, their
impressions from Cityscape Global 2025 in Riyadh held under the
theme “The Future of Urban Living”, their
interest in the indigenous culture of the Kogi of Colombia and
what contemporary architecture can learn from ideas of balance,
long-term responsibility, and respect for the environment. A
focussed discussion on connection - across disciplines and
continents. Birgit Eller Krumm is host of
episode 113 of KAP Podcast.


Links:


https://sterlingpresser.com


Instagram: sterlingpresser


Elke Sterling-Presser is director of STERLING
PRESSER since 2018, co-founded in Berlin with engineer-architect
Nicolas Sterling. She holds an advanced Master of Architecture
degree from the SAC-Städelschule at the Staatliche Hochschule für
Städelschule Bildene Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is
also a respected educator. Since 2019, she has been imparting her
knowledge at the University of Arts (UdK) in Berlin. Previously,
between 2013 and 2015, she contributed to the academic
environment at the University of Greenwich in London. Her
professional experience includes significant stints at various
architecture offices, notably Zaha Hadid Architects in London
from 2006 to 2015.


Nicolas Sterling is a structural engineer and
architect. He is a graduate of the Conservatoire National des
Arts et Métiers in Paris and the Paris La Villette School of
Architecture. He founded STERLING PRESSER in 2018, a studio in
architecture and engineering, based in Berlin. Nicolas was
previously Associate Director of AKTII Adams Kara Taylor,
managing a group delivering buildings and special
structure.
He joined ARUP AGU’s Advanced Geometry Unit in 2005, a team of
specialists within ARUP led by Cecil Balmond, and was part of the
ARUP Building Engineering Group in London until 2011.


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