PROFILE
Karen Lohrmann is a Los Angeles based urbanist, artist, educator, and researcher. Previously located in Berlin, she initiated Lorma Marti focusing on studies of spaces, cultural manifestations, and resultant landscapes, together with Stefano de Martino in 2002. Their work is published and exhibited internationally, most recent books include Update: All Possible Worlds (2008), How we spent it (2009) and Waiting Land (forthcoming). She is also co-editor of Clear Skies with Patches of Grey, with Hugo Beschoor Plug and Kees Christiaanse, and of the biannual Correspondents, with Stefano de Martino. With a focus on urban studies and related scenography, she places her work at the crossroads of disciplines, from site to non-site: in urban context she traces trends, patterns and movements; in landscape she works within the notions of panorama, image and its implicit content.
Karen coordinates The Culture Now Project, an immersive investigation of the intersections of public policy and urban design, contemporary culture and its spatial implications. She has been a visiting professor for environments, landscape and cultural studies at the University of Innsbruck Institute of Design (2003-2010), and an assistant professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism TU Berlin (1998-2003).
karen@lormamarti.com
EDUCATION
Aachen University
ETH
University of the Arts Zurich
TU Berlin School of Architecture, Urbanism and Society
STUDIO
Lorma Marti
