Haris Piplas

Director Integration Urban Solutions

Drees&Sommer

Berlin, Germany

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Drees&Sommer

Drees&Sommer

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Berlin, Germany

We offer need new, interdisciplinary approaches to urban development in order to master these upcoming tasks. With Urban and Infrastructure Solutions, Drees & Sommer is pooling its comprehensive urban development expertise and developing concrete solutions for the future. We see the city as a complex system that must be viewed holistically. In concrete terms, this means that spatial, economic, ecological, functional, social and aesthetic aspects must be taken into account in the development of urban spaces.
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About me

Dr. Piplas, Haris is an architect–urbanist and Director International, Integrated Urban Solutions at Drees & Sommer (Zurich), advising cities on climate‑resilient transformation and smart‑city strategy. He lectures in practice at ETH Zurich and teaches in the Smart City Solutions master at HFT Stuttgart, linking real projects to academia via living labs and design studios. His portfolio spans Europe and Asia—including Jakarta’s Smart City & Urban Innovation Strategy, SMARTilience (Mannheim/Hamburg), and regeneration initiatives from Sarajevo to Lucerne. He also serves as an expert to the OSCE, WEF Davos Baukultur Alliance, GIZ, UN-Habitat and UN Economic Commission for Europe on Smart & Sustainable Cities and co‑authored the Global Urban Toolbox / City Action Lab approach.

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