Susanne Kohte

Germany

Susanne Kohte is an architect and urban planner.

She has worked for Shigeru Ban, Tokyo, Balkrishna Doshi, Ahmedabad, India, as well as in various offices in the Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland. In 2001 she founded SUKO Architecture.

As a university educator she has worked at the Institute of Design, University of Karlsruhe and from 2002 to 2006 at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg. She has had a teaching position at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts from 2008 to 2015 and since 2013 she is a Visiting Professor at the Technical University in Cologne (TH Koeln).

In various studies and publications as well as a curator she deals with modern architecture and urban developments with an emphasis on Japan and India. In 2017, the book „Encounters and Positions – Architecture in Japan“ was published, it combines reflections on architecture of Japanese architects with an analytical consideration of Japanese architecture from an international perspective.