Kaja Schelker, Dipl.-Ing. Arch.

Kaja Schelker was born in Nysa, Poland. She studied architecture at the Universities of Porto and Stuttgart, where she graduated with a degree in engineering [Diplom-Ingenieur] in 2009. Until 2013, she worked as an architect for architecture firms in Germany and Switzerland. Simultaneously, she pursued the postgraduate programme »Cultural  Studies and Cultural Animation« of the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. From 2013 to 2017, she was a self-employed architect with projects in Bavaria. Since 2017, she has been a PhD student with Professor Burcu Dogramaci at the Department of Art History, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2013 to 2020, she was a researcher and taught at the University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, headed by Professor Werner Sobek.

Since 2021, Kaja Schelker has been a researcher in the GWZO junior research group »Contrasting East Central Europe«.

• Regional architecture of the postwar period from a transnational perspective
• Lightweight construction between utopian imaginary and technical avant-garde
• Interactions of high-tech and low-tech architectures in contemporary sustainability discourse

Regional section editor  and author (Poland) for womenbuildingsocialism.org

2018 fellow at the  German Historical Institute in Warsaw [Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau], Poland