Ulrike Lauber is an architect and photographer based in Berlin. Born in Biedenkopf, Germany, she studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin before spending four years in Richard Meier’s New York office. In 1989, she co-founded an architectural practice in Munich, later completing projects in Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin. She also taught architectural design and urban planning at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology for more than two decades.
Alongside her architectural career, Lauber has continued to photograph, publish, and exhibit her work. Her photographs focus on colour, surfaces, and structures in the built environment. Her exhibitions include Streifen und Flächen at Munich’s WhiteBox and the travelling group exhibition Raumbilder. Her book Einfach da (Kehrer Verlag, 2026) brings together more than two decades of colour photographs of surfaces, materials and structures in cities such as New York, Munich, Berlin and Venice. It includes an essay by Hans-Michael Koetzle and was designed by Detlev Pusch. In 2026 the work was also shown as an exhibition at the Architekturgalerie München.
