Catja Edens

Catja Edens is an architectural historian based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She works as a writer, researcher, and director, collaborating with architectural offices, young design talent, cultural institutions, universities, and ministries. She has published many articles and books, typically on the intersection of academia, architectural practice, policy making and the general public, building bridges between them. In recent years her work has increasingly focused on the topic of women in architecture and architectural history.

Edens devotes part of her time to her doctoral project And the rest is history. On the archival representation of women architects. Combining it with teaching and a variety of other projects on women in architecture and architectural history, allows for a lively interchange between research and practice.

Casa de Vidro is the house Lina Bo Bardi designed for herself. The neat modernist box soon merged with the surrounding jungle into a dreamy symbiosis. Imagine climbing the stairs barefoot, engulfed by the sweet aroma of trees and soil, arriving upstairs to settle into a leather-wood chair and muse at the view.

Caption: Casa de Vidro by Lina Bo Bardi, photo Nelson Kon

Mutsaardstraat 31 - 2000 Antwerpen - België

catja@spatie.org