Short CV
Katrin Rheingans has been a Research Fellow and PhD candidate of the DFG Research Training Group ‘Social Transformation and Spatial Materialisation of Housing’ at the Chair of Urban Planning at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
She has been practising as an architect at the Architektenkammer Berlin since 2014. She obtained her Diploma in Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and her Master’s in Urban Design at University College London (UCL). She taught for many years at the Brandenburg University of Technology (B-TU) and at KIT and has also worked internationally in various architecture firms. From 2018 to 2020 she was a trainee architect in the urban design branch of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing in Berlin.
Research focus
Her work focuses on sufficient design, public welfare-orientated building stock transformation, as well as research into housing heritage and spatial housing practices in the metropolis of Berlin.
Recent projects
In her dissertation project on housing sufficiency, she is researching structural-spatial housing practices in intensive housing occupancy in Berlin.
As a practising architect in the neighbourhood protection areas of Neukölln, Katrin Rheingans advises families in densely populated areas on structural-spatial interventions as an adaptation to new needs in everyday family life.
Previously, as an academic assistant at BTU, she was involved in the development of inter- and transdisciplinary teaching formats in the degree programmes Architecture, World Heritage Studies (WHS) and Climate-Friendly Building and Operation (KLIBB). For five years, she designed the seminar ‘architecture city space’ in the World Heritage Studies programme to examine heritage settlements in Berlin, where international students from different disciplines investigated everyday use there.