Karen Lohrmann is an urbanist, artist, educator and researcher, currentlylocated in Los Angeles. Born in Hamburg, she was educated in Aachen, Zurichand Berlin studying architecture and urbanism with a focus on cultural andspatial production in the urban context. She also has a background inscenography and production of time-based media, including both feature lengthand documentary productions. Her work is situated at the crossroads ofdisciplines, from site to non-site. She collaborates with cultural producers aswell as architecture, landscape and urban design practices, and teaches, exhibitsand lectures internationally. A DAAD scholarship recipient, she has beenawarded numerous project and research grants for her work.As a faculty member at UCLA Karen Lohrmann is the coordinator andcoinstructor of the Culture Now Project, initiated by Thom Mayne at UCLAArchitecture and Urban Design, in 2010. She is the editor of the first Culture Nowpublication, Midsize America, which is scheduled to come out in February 2012.

Karen Lohrmann has been a visiting professor for cultural, urban, and landscapestudies at the University of Innsbruck (2003-10) and an assistant professor at theTU Berlin School of Architecture, Urbanism and Society (1998-03). She is acoeditor of Clear Skies with Patches of Grey (2003, with Hugo Beschoor Plug and KeesChristiaanse), a selection of essays and works on urbanity, culture, andlandscape.

In 2002, Karen Lohrmann and Stefano de Martino started the collaborative LormaMarti, based in Berlin and Los Angeles. Lorma Marti is a critical practice onspaces in transformation, cultural manifestations and resultant landscapes.Using the framework of spatial installations, mixed media sequences, still,moving and sound images they experiment with developing stories. They are theauthors of Update: All Possible Worlds (2008) and How we spent it (2009), and theeditors of the periodical Correspondents (since 2009).