Katya Krat

Katya Krat is a Siberian-born, South African-raised architect, educator and creative artist based in Cape Town. 

In 2020 she graduated with a Master of Architecture from UCT, winning the Corobrick award for Best Student. Her thesis “Montage, collage and bricolage in making Tarkovsky’s zone: Sculpting a cinematic narrative space in a liminal landscape” explored how experiential design methods inspired by the study of cinema can inform the making of poetic architecture, which connects multiple realities and time-based encounters. Her academic interests touch on how architecture intersects with liminality, film, narrative, identity and landscapes in terms of geopolitics and conceptual theory.

At SEA Katya teaches First Year Theory, Digital Representations and Studio. Additionally, Katya is an assistant lecturer at the University of Cape Town (UCT) teaching second-year design in their BAS programme.

Passionate about design research, Katya has collaborated with international architectural offices and research collectives throughout her student and professional career. She has exhibited her work in Cape Town,  Johannesburg, St Petersburg, Vladivostok, Kigali, Kampala, Tbilisi and Berlin.