Kosta Mathéy
Prof. Dr., Dipl.-Ing. Dip.grad.hons-(AA)
Kosta Mathey holds a PhD in applied social sciences and registered architect in Britain and the Commonwealth.

Kosta Mathéy was founder of two m.sc. programs on urban development planning at the university of technology in darmstadt and the vietnamese-german university in ho chi minh city.  He also is or has been teaching at various other universities in germany, china, cuba, brazil, colombia, egypt, oman, and nigeria.

In development cooperation he worked for ILO, un-habitat, European community, giz, kfw, the Goethe institute and other organizations in Asia. Africa and Latin America.

Kosta Mathéy is author or editor of 7 books and more than 100 contributions in edited books and scientific journals. He also is founder of TRIALOG, the scientific journal on planning and building in the global south.

Kosta Mathéy speaks fluently english, french, spanish, german and some portuguese.

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the practitioner

Kosta Mathéy has been trained as architect and urban planner and has worked in the profession germany and in london, where was member of collective of SOLON HOUSING ASSOCIATION collective of architects, providing new and refurbished dwellings mostly to the brixton migrant community. In berlin and tinos (greece) he refurnished ruins of historic mansions into modern living space.


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the urban consultant

after joining the department for planning and building in developing countries at technische hochschule darmstadt as assistant lecturer (WiMi) at a period when western foreign aid was more interested in assisting basic needs of people in the South. Obviously, architectural design was not much perceived as a problem there, rapid urbanization yes. Hence, the preoccupation shifetd from arcneture to urban development planning.

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the participatory planning advisor​

In the global south, the most needy resident live in informal settlements. These are mostly self-build and lack essential infrastructure. Improvement strategies cannot function without strong involvement of the community. As an outsider, trust must be built first and second come simple low-cost solutions which can be maintained by the resident community
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the housing policy expert

shelter is the first need when people settle. There is hardly any city that can offer enough housing for everyone - but there exist example of good quality affordable social housing programs, both public and private. Kosta mathey wrote his AA thesis on historic housing prov-ision in the UK, dedidacted his PhD on self-help housing startegies in latin america and compiled a comprehensive housing profile con the cuban housing system for UN-HABITAT.


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the project manager

housing and neighbourhood projects require funding - especially if the poor belong to the principle target group. All potential project donors need to be convinced that the proposed project makes sense and can be reasonably implemented  according to budget and schedule. Involving a lot of learning by doing. dr. mathey now specializes on systematic project planning and proposal writing - what he also teaches at hafencity university in Hamburg, and the panafrican university in tlemcen (algeria).

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the environmentalist

In his youth, kosta mathéy took care of his parents' allotment garden close to frankurt - which assured a relatively healthy environment and food, too. In his first period as university lecturer, he edited the first book on environmentally responsible planning and building - and 10 years later the first german book on ecological urbanism. As a professor, he researched on disaster proof housing in vietnam., organized an international congress on urban agriculture and lately joint a german-chinese project team on sustainable urbanism.

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the researcher

Kosta Mathéy strted his researcher's career with grant from the Michael Ventris Award while studying at the architectural association in london. Over his entire university carreer, his later research projects were predictable and covered a wide spectrum of subjects. His most recent reseaerch proposal he submitted in may 2020.

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the educator

education is supposed to prepare people to learn life skills, including as well play a beneficial role to society which is a shred responsibilits for all. If we look at the worst managed states, we can find a correlation with its education system. To the educator, observing former students occupying important positions in a positively progressive context, belongs to the set of possible joys in life.

Apart from regular teaching at university, PhD supervision and postdoc mentoring are particularly enriching  because learning goes in two directions, but also the delivery of training modules  are a reat opportunity because of the direct linkage with life challenges. The highest degree of satisfaction is probably curriculum development mathéy the global south - which prof. Mather had the privilege to perform on repeated occasions.

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the author and editor​​

Writing and publishing a book is a very satisfying activity for an academic, as it represents a physical proof of often long and sometimes tiring theoretical work.  However, over the last decades more and more books have been produced, but fewer copies are being sold and read every day.  Easy digital access to information may be one cause, but the same phenomenon also has its benefits, too, through open access data bases.
Kosta Mathéy is author or editor of 7 books and more than 100 contributions in edited books and scientific journals. Realistically calculated, only some 50-200 copies have been acquired and read by the professional audience. At the same time, an average of 1-2 copies are being downloaded on a daily base - in one specific week he even featured among the 5 mostly requested author in Academia - the probably most known downloading portal.

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the artist and photographer

Being son  of the renowned painter and book illustrator Georg Alexander Mathéy and the photographer Irmgard Mathéy, Kosta got inspired in drawing, painting and photography at childhood age. He still values the quality and aesthetics of material art, as opposed to digital information only...

STANDARD CV:  5 pages [2019]

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