Biographical Note

Kerstin Dorhofer was born in Dresden in 1943. She received her architecture degree in 1969 from the Technical University of Berlin, where she stayed to practice until 1973. From 1973 to 1978 Dorhofer was an Assistant Professor at the University, where she received her doctoral degree with a dissertation about social housing in Germany. In 1979 Dorhofer formed an organization at the Free University of Berlin for women's studies. Since 1986 Dorhofer has taught at the University of Arts in Berlin, studying how gender and architecture are related and researching the work of women in architecture, especially in the building history of Berlin.

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