Karin Jaschke

K.Jaschke@brighton.ac.uk

Karin Jaschke trained as an architect at the Technical University Berlin and, briefly but significantly, at the Technical University Lund. After a period of working in practice, she went on to postgraduate studies in the history and theory of modern architecture at University College London and Princeton University. In 2000 she joined the department of design and architectural theory at Bauhaus-University Weimar as a senior lecturer and contributed part-time to studio 10 and history and theory in architecture at Westminster University.

Jaschke is now subject leader in undergraduate history and theory in architecture and interior architecture at the University of Brighton and co-ordinates Brighton's part in an EU-funded project, DEEDS (Design Education Sustainability), which aims to develop sustainability awareness in design education.

Currently Jaschke is writing up her PhD thesis about the engagement of late-modern architects with traditional cultures and work on two conference papers entitled 'Acting Up: Architectural Practice as Performance' and 'The mise-en-scène of Elementary Living: Dutch Architects in the Sahara'. Both papers draw on her PhD research and recent work on the notion of professional practice as performance, as formulated by interpretive archaeology, and aim to describe ways in which architecture may approach issues of sustainability and ecology that are both critical and creative.