Katrin Schamun is an urbanist, architect, media theorist and audio-visual artist who writes about the experience of environments under contemporary conditions mediated through technologies.
Schamun is currently a researcher at the BMBF (Engaged Science) project WIKK*I at the TU in Berlin. From 2014-2019 she was a teacher and researcher at Harvard University's Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies. She was previously a guest associate professor at the Academy of Fine Art Hangzhou at CDK (2013-2014) and lecturer and researcher at Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin at the Institute of Gestaltung and Institute of time-based art (2008-2013). Schamun is a scholarly journalist and translator and one of the co-founders of the German online magazine baunetz-id.
Academic writing
In Progress: Cinematic Processes of Transformation in Avantgarde and Experimental Cinema as Descriptive Models for the Architectural Experience, 2023
A Temporary School. In: Bauhaus Magazine, issue 11 – Centenary. Spector Books 2019. Bauhaus Magazine, 2019. publisher‘s version
Colin Rowe, Grüne Nord-Süd-Achse Berlin 1989. In: Das ungebaute Berlin: Stadtkonzepte im 20. Jahrhundert. Carsten Krohn (ed.) DOM publisher 2010. S.242-244.
Landscapes in Transformation, conceptual development for the strategic development of the project area lake Senftenberg for the IBA Fuerst-Pueckler-Land, IBA See, 2010 in collaboration with Sandra Kalcher and Thies Schröder. publisher’s version
Translations (see details)
László Moholy-Nagy: From Material to Architecture, Bauhausbuch 14, English facsimile edition, edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy (original series), Lars Müller (facsimile edition), translated by Katrin Schamun, Jillian DeStone equ.cont. Zuerich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2021. publisher’s version
Oskar Schlemmer: The Theater of the Bauhaus, Bauhausbuch 4, edit. Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy (orig.ser.), Lars Müller (facs.ed.) original German edition transl.: Arthur S. Wensinger 1961: revised transl.: Katrin Schamun, Jillian DeStone equ.cont. Zuerich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2020 in collaboration with Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung Berlin. publisher’s version
László Moholy-Nagy: Painting, Photography, Film, Bauhausbuch 8, English facsimile edition, edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy (original series), Lars Müller (facsimile edition), 2019, translated by Jillian DeMair, Katrin Schamun equ.cont. Zuerich: Lars Müller Publishers. publisher’s version
Popular writing (Selection)
Interview: form follows love. Ein Gespräch mit der Lehmbauexpertin Anna Heringer, 2021. publishers version
Co-Kreation mit Seidenraupen. Neri Oxman will unsere Welt nach dem Vorbild der Natur gestalten, 2020. publisher‘s version
Book Review: Synopsis: Sylvia Lavin, Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects. CCA/Spector Books 2020. publisher‘s version
Interview: Are we human? To what extent the human is designing him(it)self? A Conversation with Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, 2019. publisher’s version
Book Review: Synopsis: Beatriz Colomina, X-Ray Architecture. Lars Müller Publishers. 2019. publisher‘s version
Book Review: Kartierung und Macht. Theo Deutinger: Handbook of Tyranny. Lars Müller Publishers. 2019. publisher‘s version
Book Review: Synopsis: Johannes Binotto (Hg.): Film, Architektur. Perspektiven des Kinos auf den Raum, 2018. publisher‘s version
Tonleiter der Stille. In: Was ist Zeit? Rosegarden Ausgabe 2, Rosegarden Verlag, 2018. p.38-41.
Chaired Tales, The Work of Artist Amie Siegel, 2016. publisher‘s version
Two Resonance Experiments. Digital Passage, 2014. publisher‘s version
Reconstructing the Universe, Italian Futurism feels at Home in Guggenheim, 2014. publisher‘s version
Fotographie ist Poesie ohne Worte. Ein Portrait über Hélène Binet, 2012. publisher‘s version
Realstadt – Wünsche als Wirklichkeit. In: Archithese 1.2011. Swiss Performance 11. Archithese, 1.2011, Pp. 78-79.
Utopien für Beirut. A Conversation with Bernhard Khoury, 2010. publisher‘s version
Interview mit Eliszabeth Diller, 2010. publisher‘s version
AV-IMAGES – CINEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY (see details)
breath (see details)
place: bad koesen, thuringia
format: film 2020
circle (see details)
place: liuhe pagoda hangzhou, china
format: i-phone video, 2013
garden (see details)
place: garden scenes hangzhou, china
format: collection of video stills, 2013
memo-move (see details)
format: movie 2012
collaboration with kristin studioso
mavi cami
place: Istanbul
format: animation of photos, 2011
