biography

Katja Hogenboom is an Umeå based architect, PhD researcher, teacher, photographer, researcher and writer. After her architecture studies, and a short career at the office of Beth Galí in Spain, she worked for seven years in an office in the Netherlands. Where she worked on the design and realization of housing and public buildings (among them regional police headquarters). In 2008 she started her own freelance practice; developing a practice where research, photography, teaching and the practice of architecture form an integrated whole. She worked for two years for the state architect of the Netherlands. She organized and curated a master classe and was in charge, as chief editor, of a publication that documented the professional education of young architects who; besides doing work in Dutch offices where on the outlook for ideals in architecture. Besides setting up educational programs, research and curating work, she works as an independent architect on the redesign of the interior of the university library in the city of Leiden, and designed a temporary exhibition for the Dutch Parliament on the digitalization of political documents.

In 2011 she started her PhD research at 'UMA' Umeå School of Architecture, after one year teaching the second year bachelor students at UMA (2010-2011). ...