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Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz is an architect (Technische Universität München/ Germany) and PhD in architecture and urban planning (Universität Karlsruhe/ Germany). She has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Lima (Peru), at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Germany), the ETSAB and ESARQ in Barcelona (Spain) and the Daniel Center of Urban Studies and Building Research in Genoa (Italy). Currently she is faculty member of the Metrópolis Masters Program and Professor in Residence of Clemson University at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She is lecturing at the Masters Program Urban Agglomerations at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main and at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning at Universität Karlsruhe.
Her research focuses on urbanization processes and migration, Latin American urbanism, informal urbanism, urban renewal strategies and public space, housing policies, structural changes of urban societies and urban perception.
She is a member of the editing 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 Deutscher Werkbund (dwb).
Her photographic work has been exhibited in Peru and Germany: Lima, mundos de una metrópoli (Lima 2002); Lima, Lebenswelten einer Metropole (Augsburg 2001, Frankfurt 2003). An upcoming exhibition on Lima will be shown in Tübingen (2010).
She has published a monograph on Lima (Frankfurt/ London, 2008) and edited and published in Architectural Design (London), werkundzeit (Darmstadt), ur[b]es (Lima), Olacchi (Quito) and Trialog (Darmstadt). Book contributions on European public spaces (Barcelona), on mixed housing in Spain (Stuttgart) and an urban essay (Lima) are forthcoming in 2010.