Katja Hogenboom, MArch

Currently, Katja’s research investigates more-than-human architectures, imagining interspecies ways of living through Worlding as Speculative Fabulation. Through projects like Fabulation Tectonics (forthcoming article in #perspectives_a.u) and among others, studies of Andrés Jaques’ practice, she invites us to rethink coexistence in architecture—honoring differences that relate, fostering reciprocity, and advancing regenerative practices for a damaged earth.

Her work emphasizes interdependence, kinship, and the entanglement of species, materials, and technologies, using storytelling to reimagine relationships between humans, more-than-humans, and the planet. Concerned with form as a medium, Katja explores how architecture can articulate new expressions of possible futures and worldmaking.

Her work develops through experimental and interdisciplinary explorations, drawing on the fields of art, film theory, theatre, architecture, and philosophy. Her methodology mobilizes an understanding of architecture that traces the aesthetic strategies employed in architectural projects, with a commitment to an emancipatory endeavor within the complexity of present reality.

Hogenboom earned her PhD in Architecture (History and Theory) at the KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm Sweden (2023). Her thesis, Situated Freedom - Exploring the Aesthetic Practice of Rem Koolhaas/OMA, investigates architecture’s political, emancipatory, and aesthetic potential, exploring how materials, forms, and spatial practices can shape freedom, redistribute the sensible, and script cosmopolitical relations. Trained as an architect (Ma in Architecture from the TU Delft) with 25 years of professional experience, both in various offices in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain, and as the head of her own practice, she has spent more than 15 years in research and architectural education at universities in the Netherlands (Academy of Architecture Amsterdam), Sweden (KTH Stockholm and Umeå University), and Germany (Karlsruhe KIT) as STO foundation visiting professor at KIT Department of Architecture in Karlsruhe teaching a studio and seminar (MA). With her own practice she has built a pavilion on the roof of the university library in Leiden (NL). Katja worked for the state architect of the Netherlands on research and education.