Valentina Rozas Krause is interested in the History of Architecture and Urbanism, Memorials and Monuments, Cultural Memory, Theories of Urban Design and Planning, Landscape Design and Cultural Geography. Her dissertation research focuses on the representation of memories of twentieth century traumas in public urban space in Argentina, Germany and the United States. ​She studies ​monuments on two levels: as an emerging global practice of memorialization and as places for everyday life. Valentina grew up in Berlin and Santiago.

Valentina Rozas Krause is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an architect with a masters degree in Urban Development from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and founder of Memopolis. In 2008, she was awarded first place in a public competition to design “Memorial Patio 29” which was inaugurated in 2010. Her project to transform Chile's National Stadium into a public park, designed with Teodoro Fernandez Architects, was awarded with the first place in Parque de la Ciudadanía competition (2011).

Berkeley Connect in Architecture, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016-Spring 2017.

“Urban Design Studio V”. Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design. Universidad Diego Portales. Elective design studio for advanced Architecture undergraduates. Assistant professor together with Genaro Cuadros (from March 2014 to July 2014).

“Introduction to Urbanism and Landscape”. Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design. Universidad Diego Portales. Compulsory course for Architecture undergraduates. Full professor (from March 2012 to July 2014).

Graduate Course in the Cultural Management of Heritage: Module 2”. Anthropology Department. Faculty of Social Sciences. Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Lecturer of the second module of a total of four, with historian Mauricio Rojas. (Second semester 2012-201

“Urbanism and symbolism: heritage and monument in three contemporary cities (Berlin, Buenos Aires, Santiago)”. Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design. Universidad Diego Portales. Optional course for Architecture undergraduates. Taught with Rodrigo Millán

Rozas-Krause, Valentina (2018) “Apology and Commemoration: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center” History & Memory, vol. 30, no. 2, 2018 (forthcoming).

Rozas-Krause, Valentina “Stadiums of a City” [Estadios de una Ciudad], In: CELEDÓN, A. FELL, S. (2018) STADIUM: Catalogue of the Chilean Pavilion for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

Rozas-Krause, Valentina (2018) “Demolition”, “Memorial” and “Monumentality” In: VINYES, R. (director) Diccionario de la Memoria Colectiva [Dictionary of Collective Memory], Gedisa: Barcelona.

CRAGHEAD, A., GEROSTATHOPOULOS, S., ROZAS-KRAUSE, V., SHANKEN, A. et. al. (2017) “Remember This! A Memory Manifesto, for Architects.”, Room One Thousand, Issue 5, 2017. ISSN: 2328-4161.

Millán Valdes, R. & Rozas-Krause, V. (2017) “Estadio Nacional - Archivo Abierto: la experiencia de un archivo digital urbano “, Revista Digital Universitaria, January 1 2017, Vol.18, N.1. ISSN: 1607-6079.

Márquez, F. & Rozas-Krause, V. (2016) “Occupying and Reclaiming a National Historical Monument: The Casa Central of the Universidad de Chile” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 43, Issue 6, pp.54-74, first published on August 23, 2016, doi:10.1177/0094582X16666342.

Rozas-Krause, Valentina (2016). “Challenging the Traditional Monument: Four Reviews Applied to Santiago and Buenos Aires”, in: Guixé i Coromines, Jordi (ed.) (2016) Past and Power: Public Policies on Memory. Debates, from Global to Local. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona.

Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2015) “Cruising Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial” Journal Anos 90, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - ISSN 1983-201X (online) e ISSN 0104-236X (impresso - última edição em 2014),v. 22, n. 42, December 2015, pp. 53-85. http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/issue/current/showToc

Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2015) “Interrupted Stadium: Broken Promises of Modernity in the National Stadium of Chile” Shift Journal. [online]. 2015, n.8, pp. 60-77. http://shiftjournal.org/project/issue-8-2015/

Márquez, Francisca & Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2014) “Las heridas de la memoria. Disputas patrimoniales en el Palacio de la Moneda, Chile” Cuadernos de antropología social. [online and printed]. 2014, n.40, pp. 149-176. ISSN 1850-275X. 

Márquez, Francisca., Rozas-Krause, Valentina. & Arriagada, Rodolfo. (2014) “El lugar del patrimonio dominante” [The place of the dominant heritage]. ARQ (Santiago) [online]. 2014, n.88, pp. 56-65. ISSN 0717-6996.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-69962014000300010. 

Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2014). Book “Ni tan Elefante, ni tan blanco. Arquitectura, urbanismo y política en la trayectoria del Estadio Nacional” [Not Much of an Elephant, Not Too White. Trajectories: Architecture, Urbanism and Politics of the National Stadium],, Ril Editores: Santiago de Chile. 345 pages, ISBN: 978-956-01-0064-1 (Awards: Jury selection for the best published thesis, Chilean Architecture and Territory Biennial of 2015 and Jury pre-selection for publishing award, Quito Architecture Biennial of 2014) 

Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2013) “Three ways of explaining the existence of old stands in a remodeled stadium” [“Tres maneras de explicar la presencia de graderías antiguas en un Estadio remodelado”]. Bifurcaciones Magazine [Revista Bifurcaciones], 14. Published by Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile. Online magazine indexed. 

Fernández, Teodoro., Martic, Danilo., Rozas-Krause, Valentina., Rochette, Nicole., Turull, Anna. (2012). Article “Citizens' Park: National Stadium” [“Parque de la Ciudadanía: Estadio Nacional”]. In Revista 180, “Territories and Landscapes” [“Territorios y Paisajes”], number 30, December 2012 (ISSN 0718-2309). Thomson ISI Index: Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Faculty of Architecture, Art, and Design. Universidad Diego Portales. Magazine indexed.

Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2012). Book Chapter “The Tragedy of the Sexes as Tragedy of the Culture” [“La tragedia de los sexos como tragedia de la cultura”], In: Márquez, F. (2012) (Ed.) “Ciudades de Georg Simmel: lecturas contemporáneas”. Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago.