People
Katrin is a Registered Landscape Architect with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). She received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Nuertingen, Germany, and came to Australia to work in National Parks.
Katrin has 15 years experience in the Wollongong area working with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve complex design outcomes, from master planning through to construction.
Katrin's excellence in design, documentation and communication can be seen in projects including aged care, educational facilities, streetscape, foreshore, public open space, tourism & residential projects.
Katrin is motivated by her love of nature and fascination with Australian flora and ecologies.
Kathryn is undertaking a Masters in Landscape Architecture at the University of Technology (UTS) Sydney. She holds a Diploma of Landscape Architecture and teaches in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building which nourishes her work at Understorey.
Kathryn has a background in garden design, social science education and visual arts.
Kathryn is passionate about increasing resilience for more than-human life as well as women, children, and groups marginalised due to race, gender and sexuality, class and ability. Kathryn is an advocate for social and environmental justice in all her work, and wants to increase green, walkable and non-car infrastructure.
Kathryn loves engaging children in the outdoors, gardening on the verge, being a landscape tourist near and far, and creating shared environments of abundance.
We acknowledge and thank the traditional owners of D'harwal Country, the unceded lands
of the Illawarra where we live.
We credit First Nations people for their ongoing work in protecting, holding and sharing knowledge that underpins best practice in landscape design and management
all over the world.
This land always was, and always will be,
Aboriginal Land.