Erik Behrens
Erik Behrens is a Design Director at AECOM in London. Since 2006, he has been responsible for large-scale projects both at home and abroad. Behrens studied architecture in Karlsruhe, where he also became active in teaching and practice from 1999. Fascinated by high-speed urbanism in Asia, he moved to China in 2002 in order to work with Qingyun Ma and Rem Koolhaas. In 2006, he came to London to work at AECOM, where he played a prominent role in the master planning of the 2012 Olympic Games; since then, he has become director of an architecture studio. His works include the Oxygen Park and the Al Wahda Arches in Qatar as well as the upgrade to the Waterloo International Terminal in London.
