Katherine Rinne

Katherine Rinne's professional design work has focused on large-scale urban design and planning projects such as the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Her other major projects have included the master plan for the secondary urban center at Kapolei, Hawaii; the Paramount Studios master plan; and the Los Angeles Greenways proposal. These projects, which received awards from AIA, Progressive Architecture, and other organizations, were developed under the direction of William Fain at Johnson Fain Partners, Los Angeles.

Katherine has taught architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design at the University of Arkansas, Iowa State University, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley. She has also taught for several American university programs based in Rome. At CCA she specializes in topics related to site and regional design with an emphasis on infrastructure.

Katherine is project director for an ongoing web-based research project called Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome that is published by the University of Virginia and examines the 3,000-year history of water infrastructure and urban development in Rome. She has been awarded numerous research fellowships for this work, including awards from the Fulbright Commission, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Science Foundation. Her work has been published in academic and professional journals, and she is currently completing a book-length manuscript titled Water Infrastructure and the Urban Development of Early Modern Rome. She has lectured widely to academic and general audiences in the United States and Europe.