Catja Edens

Background

About Catja Edens

Catja Edens is an architectural historian. What drives her is a love for architecture and the city, and a curiosity for tangible and intangible history that provides us with new insights and ideas to assist with all that lies ahead of us. Part of her time is devoted to her PhD Research on the archiving of women architects, as a member of the Curatorial Research Collective at Eindhoven Technical University. For this she received a partial grant of the Van Beek-Donner Stichting. Edens was a researcher at the Future Urban Regions group, a research collective working with the joint Dutch Academies of Architecture on the city as a metabolist system. Edens teaches at the TU Delft (MSc. architectural history thesis), she is a lecturer of Architectural History at the Arnhem Academy for Architecture and teaches at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture. With her office Spatie she produces publications in the field of architecture and urban planning and contributes to symposia, workshops and prizes. She is regularly a member of juries, boards and committees in her field, such as the board of the EFL Foundation.