Dr.-Ing. Maharika is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Architecture with special interest on architecture theory and urban – rural spatial dynamics. He obtained his bachelor in architecture at Gadjah Mada University (Yogyakarta) in 1993, master of arts from Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York (UK) in 1999 and doctorate in engineering (Dr.-Ing) from Universitaet Kassel (Germany) in the field of architectural theory and urbanism in 2006 to which was partially funded by DAAD - the German Academic Exchange Service. He wrote his dissertation entitled Architecture and Other Architectures: Mapping the production of insular space in Pearl River Delta (China) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Now he is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta