FACULTY
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz is an architect with a diploma degree from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany). She has been a teaching assistant and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima (Peru) and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Germany) and a visiting professor at the ETSAB and ESARQ in Barcelona. 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). She also teaches the seminar “The contemporary city” within the Barcelona Architecture Program at the UPC in collaboration with ITESM (Mexico), Texas A&M and Clemson University. 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). Recently, she has published in Architectural Design (London/ UK), werkundzeit (Darmstadt/ Germany), ur[b]es (Lima/ Peru) and Trialog (Darmstadt/ Germany). A monograph on the transformation of structure and meaning of Lima’s historic city centre (Struktur- und Bedeutungswandel des Zentrums von Lima. Städtebauliche Ideen und Raumentwicklung im Expansionsprozess 1940 – 2002) is published in 2008 (Iko-Verlag Frankfurt/ London).