Ingrid Krau

Ingrid Krau (self-recording, January 2018)

Ingrid Krau (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German urban planner , university lecturer and author . Until her retirement , she taught as a professor for urban development at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Building of the architecture faculty of the Technical University of Berlin

Logo of the Institute for Urban Development and Housing, Munich and Berlin

Ingrid Krau studied from 1961 to 1967 Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the Technical University of Berlin . After completing her studies, she worked as a freelancer in various architecture firms . She then became an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. 1973 doctorate her at the Free University of Berlin to Dr. rer. pole. in the subject of social sciences . After completing her doctorate, she was a consultant in the planning staff of the city of Duisburg until 1978 . At the same time, she conducted research on internal and external living conditions of steel workers in the Rheinhausen ironworks of Krupp Stahl AG. Eventually she became a consultant in the preparation team for the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition . These activities ended with the establishment of an office for urban planning in Bochum .

In 1993 Ingrid Krau was appointed to the Technical University of Munich, where in 1994 she was the first full professor at this university to hold the chair for urban space and urban development at the Faculty of Architecture. Until 2010 she headed the Institute for Urban Development and Housing Munich of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) . Since her retirement, she has been researching the effects of fossil energy generation on space, society and the economy, especially the path dependencies and long-term consequences in the dimensions of the Anthropocene .

Urban planning concern

From the beginning, Ingrid Krau was shaped by the impressive artifacts of the mining industry in the Ruhr area , which is why she returned there after completing her doctorate in 1973. During these years, plans and reports were created dealing with the powerful effects of the coal and steel industry on space, time and way of life. At the same time, she started thinking about including the Duisburg inner harbor in the inner city development and turned against the demolition of industrial residential areas.

During her time in Munich , she devoted herself to urban redevelopment strategies for growing Munich. At the same time she taught urban design at the Technical University of Munich and organized advanced training for planners at the Institute for Urban Development and Housing. She was then appointed to several scientific advisory boards. She continuously publishes scientific articles in which she always raises a critical voice on current issues of urban development , such as in the context of urban redensification in Munich. "We advocate additional areas and rooms that enable communication."

While town planning is usually seen as a design task that produces finished artifacts, Ingrid Krau is increasingly interested in “town planning as a process”, which is embedded in the rules of urban planning between continuity and transformation. It is important to her to see and plan urban development as an “overall urban context that creates an identity”. Her subsequent topic after her retirement will be the epochal extinction of the fossil industrial age in the Ruhr area and the search for a new economic structure for the region. The focus here is on the coal and steel industries with their orientation towards large-scale fossil technologies, the mental path dependencies of the Ruhr industries and those of political institutions . Ingrid Krau is a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning, the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Werkbund . In 2013 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon for her commitment .

Fonts

Monographs

with Manfred Walz: Who knows what continuous shift means? Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1986.
Architecture Ruhr area. International Summer Academy 1989. Jürgen Häuser, Darmstadt 1991.
Urban development as a process. JOVIS-Verlag, Berlin 2010.
Coal, oil and war. A biography. Transit Verlag, Berlin 2015.
Dying industrial age. Looking for a departure on the Rhine, Ruhr and Emscher. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2018.

Technical papers and studies

Planning success can be learned! Together with Andreas Romero. In: Planerin_04 (2001), p. 51 f. (PDF)
From architect to urban planner. In: Winfried Nerdinger (ed.): The architect. Past and present of a profession. Volume 2. Munich / London / New York 2012, pp. 710–725. (PDF)
The Hansaviertel. Monument - energetic challenges - small-scale apartment ownership in large houses. Study 2012/13 with Rainer Vallentin (PDF)
City and spatial planners - on changing a job profile . In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung , No. 72 (2014), pp. 309–321. ( doi : 10.1007 / s13147-014-0297-4 )
Shaping urban density . Contribution to the further development of the discussion in the working group “City: Shape and Living Space” of the Munich Forum . In: Standpunkte online , No. 2/2016 (PDF)

literature

Manifesto of Action 507 . Berlin 1968.

Ingrid Krau. First Ordinaria at the Technical University of Munich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 6, 1993.

Ingrid Krau. Newly appointed to TUM. In: TUM , No. 4, p. 93 f.

Berlin shaped me. In: TU Berlin internal from May 1994.

Nina Gribat, Philipp Misselwitz, Matthias Görlich (eds.): Forgotten schools. Architecture theory between reform and revolt around 1968. Spector Books, Leipzig 2017.

Thomas Kronewiter: Housing from a toothpaste tube . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 27, 2016

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Krau - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Quotes and individual references

↑ At the highest level. The history of TUM. , Published on November 22, 2017 on the website of the TU Munich, focus from KontaktTUM 2/2017

↑ For the IBA Emscher Park z. B. in the form of a basic work on the re-use of the Zeche Zollverein 12, followed by usage concepts for the Zeche Hansa and coking plant , the conversion of the remise adjacent to the Engelshaus in Wuppertal as an extension of the museum for early industrialization .

↑ Thomas Kronewiter: Housing from the toothpaste tube . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 27, 2016. - continued there: “There are many Munich residents who even rely on their individual rooms being small and affordable. And that there are additional common uses outside the apartment, which can be used flexibly and are available. "

↑ Ingrid Krau: Shaping urban density. 2016

personal data
SURNAME	Krau, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German urban planner and university lecturer for urban development
DATE OF BIRTH	1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] At the highest level. The history of TUM. , Published on November 22, 2017 on the website of the TU Munich, focus from KontaktTUM 2/2017

[2] For the IBA Emscher Park z. B. in the form of a basic work on the re-use of the Zeche Zollverein 12, followed by usage concepts for the Zeche Hansa and coking plant , the conversion of the remise adjacent to the Engelshaus in Wuppertal as an extension of the museum for early industrialization .