Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Kerstin Gothe

Urban planner and architect DASL/SRL

Head of the Department of Regional Planning and Building in Rural Areas at the Institute of Urban and Landscape Design until 31.03.2019.

Main focus: Practical urban research on

  • Perspectives of the rural area
  • Building culture in rural areas
  • Perspectives of urban empty spaces in Karlsruhe and Seoul (South Korea)
  • Churches in the city
  • Consulting for cities and communities


Professional career:

Architectural studies at the TU Berlin and the TH Darmstadt.
Urban planning - legal clerkship in Oldenburg and Hannover
Urban research in own office
1998 to 2001 urban planner in Hamburg-Harburg and as head of the urban planning office Ludwigsburg

Chairwoman of the SRL Regional Group Baden Württemberg and the Regional Group Baden Württemberg of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning for many years

Juror in competitions, competing procedures and planning workshops, advisor to the city of Stuttgart in the urban planning committee

Conception and realization of conferences (organizer among others: SRL, DASL, Ministry of Food and Rural Areas in Baden Württemberg).

2010 to 2015: Accompanying research of the funding programme MELAP PLUS of the Ministry of Food and Rural Areas, Baden Württemberg (in the team PFEiL)

Since 2013: BMBF research project "URBAN VOIDS - Opportunities for Sustainable Urban Development", a cooperation project between with Seoul National University.

Conception and organization of the idea competition UNSERDORF/Baiersbronn together with Philipp Dechow (ISA).

Further information:http://rbl.iesl.kit.edu/gothe.php


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