CV Katrin Golda-Pongratz

Architect with a diploma degree from the Technical University of Munich/ Germany (1997) and a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the University of Karlsruhe/ Germany (2006).

As an architect, she has been collaborating at the studio of Rudi Then Bergh in Munich/ Germany (1993/1994) and at the studio of Enric Miralles EMBT in Barcelona/ Spain (1995).

She has been a teaching assistant and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima/ Peru (1999/2000) and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf/ Germany (2002-2006) and a visiting professor at the ESARQ and ETSAB in Barcelona/ Spain (2006/2007).

Currently, she is a lecturer on “Latin American urban developments” and “Urbanization and housing in a global context” within the Master Study Program Urban Agglomerations at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt/ Germany. In 2008 she will be a thesis tutor within the Masters and Graduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture Metropolis at the CCCB in Barcelona/ Spain. Within the Barcelona Architecture Program at the UPC she teaches the seminar “The contemporary city”.

Her research focuses on urbanization processes and migration, Latin American urbanism, self-organization in metropolitan agglomerations and informal urbanism, urban renewal strategies, structural changes of urban societies and urban perception.

She is a member of the directory board of the Association for Scientific Research on Planning and Building in Developing Countries (TRIALOG), of the German Working Society on the Research in Latin America (ADLAF) and of the Deutscher Werkbund (dwb).

She has exhibited photographic work in Peru and Germany: Lima, mundos de una metrópoli (Lima 2002); Lima, Lebenswelten einer Metropole (Augsburg 2001, Frankfurt 2003).

Among her publications on architecture, urban development in Latin American countries, urbanism and urban transformations, and publications of photographic work are the following:
-The Barriadas of Lima – utopian city of self organisation? In: AD (Architectural Design) Vol 74 N° 4 (The challenge of suburbia). London 2004, pp. 38-45.
-Envases – Gefässe. In: Arte iberoamericano contemporáneo. Emoción y concepto. Troncoso, María Elena/ Lescano Grosso, Ricardo C. (eds.). Córdoba (Argentine) 2005. pp. 133/ 141.
- Fragmentierende Expansion. Die lateinamerikanische Metropole Lima zwischen kolonialer Tradition und peripherer Modernität. In: Raumwandel. Werkundzeit 1/ 2 2005. Frankfurt 2005, pp. 34-43.
-La transformación de estructura y significado del centro de Lima. Tres aproximaciones. In: Ur[b]es N° 3, Revista de Ciudad, Urbanismo y Paisaje. Ludeña Urquizo, Wiley (Ed.), Lima 2006, pp. 111-134.
-Retracing a relation: Barcelona’s role as urban model for Ibero American metropolis. Lima as a case study. In: Trialog N° 93. Darmstadt 2007, pp. 4-11.
-Struktur- und Bedeutungswandel des Zentrums von Lima. Städtebauliche Ideen und Raumentwicklung im Expansionsprozess 1940 – 2002. Frankfurt/ London 2008.