Biography
Copyright: Karen Beetz // Kristina Ziadeh (*1986) has been working for many years on the relationship between design and social themes that arise especially in building in intercultural cooperation. She researches the relation between existing ways of life and the design of the built environment. Because building in unfamiliar places - near or far - means immersing in something new, informing about and understanding the context. Not only in relation to questions that are obviously relevant to construction, but also to the attitudes towards life of the people who work and live there, as well as to historical moments and influences.
Kristina Ziadeh studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart (2008-2013) and graduated with the design for the 'Initiative Rising Star - School Buildings for Hopley, Zimbabwe' in 2013. She then planned the project with 'Engineers without Borders Germany' over a period of about 10 years and built it in Zimbabwe.For this, she spent many years on the construction site in Harare.This award- winning project isafter all the basis for her current research work at Technical University of Berlin in the Program for design - based doctorate.
Before studying, she trained as a draughtswoman at WBR Architekten+ Ingenieure in Lingen(2006 - 2008) and worked during her studies for Foster + Partners in London and Steimle Architekten in Stuttgart. (Building) trips took her while studying to Zanzibar and South Africa.Parallel to her voluntary work in Zimbabwe, she worked as an architect at Ackermann+ Raff in Stuttgart(2014 - 2019) and at Numrich Albrecht Klumpp in Berlin(2020- 2022).She has also held several teaching positions at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, as well as a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Munich.In 2022, she founded her own architecture practice studio * k ARCHITECTURE in Berlin.