Short CV
Katrin Rheingans has been a research fellow at the DFG RTG at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar since 2024.
Since 2014, she has been practicing as an architect with the Berlin Chamber of Architects, focusing on the socio-ecological transformation of existing housing stock.
She received her degree in architecture with honors from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and her Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL). Before becoming self-employed, she worked in various architectural firms, including internationally, with a focus on climate-friendly construction. From 2018 to 2020, she was a trainee at the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing.
Katrin Rheingans taught for many years as a research assistant in the Department of Building Construction and Design at Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) and at the Institute for Building History and Fundamentals of Architecture at KIT. She was particularly enthusiastic about developing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching formats in the degree programs Architecture, World Heritage Studies (WHS), and Climate-Responsive Building and Operation (KLIBB). To study heritage settlements in Berlin, she spent five years designing the research seminar “architecture city space” in the World Heritage Studies program, in which international students from various disciplines worked on the architecture of everyday residential life there.
Research focus
Her work focuses on sufficient design, needs-based and resource-efficient building stock transformation, and research into housing heritage and spatial housing practices in Berlin.
Current Research
As a practicing architect in Berlin’s milieu protection areas, Katrin Rheingans advocates for those who do not have adequate housing.
In her dissertation project on housing sufficiency, she is researching a “Praxeologie suffizienten Entwerfens im bewohnten Bestand” for the needs-based adaptation of housing provision for households with children living in cramped conditions.