Valentina Rozas-Krause
PH.D. STUDENT - ARCHITECTURE
- Research Interests/Specializations
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.
- Degrees
- MS in Urban Planning, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Professional Degree in Architecture, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- BArch, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Biography
Valentina Rozas-Krause is a PhD candidate in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an architect with a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 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 first place in the “Parque de la Ciudadanía” competition (2011). Valentina has published two books. The first, Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco, is an urban, architectural and political history of the National Stadium in Chile (Ril, 2014). The second is the co-edited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018) which deals with spatial strategies of oppression, resistance, memory and reparation within varying urban contexts. These join peer-reviewed articles in History & Memory, Latin American Perspectives, Anos 90, ARQ, Revista 180, Cuadernos de Antropología Social, and Bifurcaciones alongside a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020). She recently received the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2019-2020 to complete her dissertation "Memorials and the Cult of Apology."
- Courses Taught
“Berlin: The Guilt Environment,” a Mellon/Global Urban Humanities Initiative interdisciplinary graduate research travel studio at UC Berkeley. (Spring 2020). Graduate Student Instructor.
Bridge Connect, Berkeley Connect, UC Berkeley, Summer 2019
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. Assistant 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
- Awards + Recognition
- Mellon/ACLS American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019-2020.
- Gill Family Foundation Fellowship 2019, Society of Architectural Historians.
- Pamela H. Simpson Presenter’s Fellowship 2019, Vernacular Architecture Forum.
- Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Albert Lepawsky Fellow 2018-2019, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley.
- University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Graduate Student Dissertation Support. 2017-2018
- John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship In International And Comparative Studies awarded by the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (IIS). 2017-2018.
- DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Dissertation Research Grant. 2017.
- Sharon Abramson Research Grant from the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. 2017-2018.
- Stephen Lenci Award, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley. 2017.
- GLOBAL URBAN HUMANITIES TOWNSEND FELLOW. Spring 2017.
- BERKELEY CONNECT FELLOW. 2016-2017.
- CLAS Tinker Field Research Grant. Summer 2016.
- INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IIS) PRE-DISSERTATION RESEARCH GRANT. Summer 2015.
- CHILEAN ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL: Jury Selection Award for the best published thesis, granted for the book “Ni tan Elefante, ni tan blanco. Arquitectura, urbanismo y política en la trayectoria del Estadio Nacional” at the 2015 Chilean Architecture and Territ
- CHILE SCHOLARSHIP [BECAS CHILE]: Scholarship for Advanced Human Capital Formation to study a PhD at UC-Berkeley 2014-2018, from the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research CONICYT, from the Chilean Ministry of Education.
- Selected Publications
Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (2020). “Postcolonial Berlin: Reckoning with Traces of German Colonialism,” in Daniel E. Coslett, ed. Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. New York: Routledge.
Rozas-Krause, Valentina. (forthcoming 2019). “Memoriales en excavación. Arqueologías de la violencia en Santiago y Buenos Aires” [Excavating Memorials. Archaeologies of Violence in Santiago and Buenos Aires]. In: Marco Ensignia et. al (eds.) Golpes a la Memoria. Tege: Santiago.
MARQUEZ, F. & ROZAS-KRAUSE, V. (2019) “Ocupación y Reclamo del Patrimonio Histórico Nacional. Universidad de Chile,” and “Las Heridas de la Memoria: Disputas Patrimoniales en el Palacio de la Moneda, Chile.” In: Francisca Márquez (ed.). Patrimonio: Contranarrativas Urbanas [Heritage: Urban Counternarratives]. Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado: Santiago.
MONTEALEGRE, P. & ROZAS-KRAUSE, V. (2018) (eds.) Disputar la Ciudad. [Dispute the City] Editorial Bifurcaciones: Santiago de Chile. Disputar la Ciudad, deals with strategies of oppression, resistance and memory within varying urban contexts.
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.