Katja Bülow
  • Philip de Langes Allé 10, Bygning 68. Indgang C+D

    1435 København K

    Denmark

  • Philip de Langes Allé 10

    1434 København

    Denmark

20002025

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Curriculum vitae

Katja Bülow is an architect Ph.D., specialized in Architectural Lighting. She is Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design and Conservation and has more than 20 years of teaching experience within the field of light and architecture. She is responsible for The Light Lab of the Academy and is affiliated to Institute of Architecture and Space. She is Lecturer and Consultant within the field of Architectural Lighting and Supervisor at the Master program “Spatial Design - Architecture, Design and Interior”.

Main research interests are didactics within architectural lighting teaching, and how light becomes part of the architectural education, appearance of light as a driver for the creation of situated spaces, and how the complexity of light, architecture and design can be developed, mapped, and discussed from an architectural point of view. Compositional and everchanging light situations are studied as exterior urban phenomena as well as interior results from urban planning, spatial design, and material detailing.

Research area

  • Process and method
  • Technology and digital design
  • Aesthetics and form