Senate Building Director, Prof. Petra Kahlfeldt

Senate Building Director, Prof. Petra Kahlfeldt

Professional career

  • since 12/2021

    Senate Building Director and Permanent Secretary for Urban Development in the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing

  • 2015 – 2018

    Member of the Executive Board of the “Gutshaus Neukladow” community foundation

  • 2015 – 12/2021

    Member of the Advisory Board of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) public transport authority, Berlin

  • 2008 – 12/2021

    Member of the Board of Trustees of the Architects’ and Engineers’ Association (AIV) in Berlin

  • since 2004

    Professor in the research area of “Historical Buildings, Conservation of Historical Buildings and Monuments and Design”: University of Fine Arts Hamburg, HafenCity Hamburg, Università di Bologna, Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology
    Role suspended since 12/21

  • 2000 – 2014

    Member of the Landesdenkmalrat (Advisory Board for Historical Buildings and Monuments) of the City of Berlin

  • 1997 – 1998

    Rome Award of the Villa Massimo German Academy

  • 1990 – 1995

    Research Assistant at the Technical University of Berlin

  • 1987 – 12/2021

    Self-employed in partnership with Paul Kahlfeldt

  • 1985 – 1987

    Work at architect offices in Berlin

Education

  • 1979 – 1985

    Degree in Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and Universitá degli studi Firenze

Past memberships

Advisory boards for architecture:

  • Landshut
  • Würzburg
  • Scharnhauser Park, Ostfildern
  • World Heritage Advisory Board, City of Lübeck
  • Potsdam

Commissions:

  • Construction of the Berlin Humboldt Forum; Berlin Palace
  • Reconstruction of the New Frankfurt Old Town, Frankfurt am Main
  • Potsdamer Mitte am Alten Markt (Block III and Block IV); redevelopment project for the historic city centre of Potsdam
  • Architectural Advisory Board for Siemensstadt2 (until 12/2021)