Katan, Roger

Roger Katan is a French American architect, artist, and educator known as a proponent of the community-based design practices of participatory architecture and advocacy planning. He has been a university instructor, international consultant, lecturer, activist, and author on the subject.

After architecture studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France, Katan won a scholarship to MIT in 1960. From 1962-64, he worked for Louis Kahn in Philadelphia. He created, with Pratt and City College graduate students, one of the first Community Design Centers, offering free technical assistance to communi...