Jarrik Ouburg (1975) studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2001 his graduation project won the Archiprix International, the biennial international competition for the best graduation projects in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.

In 2002 he received the prestigious Monbusho scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He was a research fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan from 2002 to 2003.

As an architect and urban planner he gained extensive experience at internationally renowned offices. He worked as a project architect on luxury houses for E2A in Zürich. At the Architecten Cie. in Amsterdam he was responsible for the urban scheme of Roombeek, a district of the city of Enschede known for the fireworks disaster. At Toyo Ito Architects & Associates in Tokyo he worked on several projects including the competition for the CCTV headquarters in Beijing, China.

From 2004 to 2008 he worked as project leader at Xaveer de Geyter Architects and made key contributions to projects like the 1st prize winning competition for the new headquarters of the European Patent Office, a Hotel school in Brussels, housing projects in Amsterdam, The Hague and Paris, an urban plan for the city of Leuven, Belgium and a regional plan for the city of Nice, France.

Since 2008 Jarrik Ouburg has run his own architectural practice in Amsterdam and is a visiting lecturer at the Delft University of Technology and the Academie of Architecture in Amsterdam. He is a frequent critic and speaker at academies and universities and his essays are published regularly. 

As of September 2012 Jarrik Ouburg will be the new head of Architecture at the 

Academy of Architecture of the Amsterdam School of the Arts.