Prof. Dr. Alla Vronskaya
Work Experience
09/2023 - 05/2024 | Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, 2023/2024 |
2020 - 2017 | Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture |
2020 | Professor of Architectural History and Theory, Kassel University, FB06 (Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape Architecture) |
2016 - 2017 | Visiting Lecturer of Architectural Theory, ETH Zurich |
2014 - 2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Chair Prof. Philip Ursprung, ETH Zurich |
2008 - 2012 | Teaching assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2006 - 2017 | Research Fellow, Department of Classical Western Art, State Institute of Art Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow |
Academic background
2014 Ph.D. in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Architecture
Dissertation: The Productive Unconscious: Architecture, Experimental Psychology and Techniques of Subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935
2007 Candidate of Arts and Sciences in Art History, State Institute of Art Research,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
2004 Specialist (diploma) in Philosophy, Moscow State University, Department of Philosophy
Awards
2024 | Best Article 2022-2023, Architectural Histories: The Journal of the European Architectural Histories Network (for article “Modernism and Mobilization: from Viktor Sokolsky’s Economic Principle to Interwar Functionalism”) |
2023 | AATSEEL Best Book Prize, shortlist (for Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences) |
Memberships and non-academic activities
11/2024 - 11/2027 | "Data Centers: An Environmental History of Information, 1850s-1950s" Kooperation im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes von Prof. Dr. Alfredo Thiermann, EPFL (SNSF) |
11/2024 - 2030 | Kompetenzzentrum Geschlechterforschung in der Transformation, Universität Kassel Mitglied |
08/2024 - 2030 | Heat Humanities Hub (HHH) Mitglied des Forschungsnetzwerkes |
06/2024 - 06/2025 | European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Mitglied |
09/2022 - 2030 | Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Mitglied des Forschungsnetzwerkes: https://criticalarchitecture.org/mitglieder/ |
01/2016 - 2030 | Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) Mitglied |
2014 - 2030 | European Architectural History Network (EAHN) |
2010 - 2030 | Society of Historians of East-European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) |
2007 - 2030 | College Art Association (CAA) |
2007 - 2030 | Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) |
Lectures
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06/2024 | Reinventing the Conical Dwelling in the Soviet Union: Between the Form of Settlement and the Fetish of Form European Architectural History Network (EAHN) Biennial Conference, Athen |
03/2024 | Modernism on the Frontier: Architecture and Regional Planning in the Interwar Soviet Union e-flux Architecture Lectures, e-flux, New York, New York |
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12/2023 | Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Kuwait University, College of Architecture, Gastvortrag, Kuwait City |
11/2023 | Environmental Colonization: Architecture, Climate, and Geography in the Cold-War Soviet Union Center Research Talks, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Washington, DC |
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07/2023 | Re-Forming the Archive of Women in State-Socialist Architecture "MADE BY WOMEN - Ein Tribut an die Frauen in Architektur und Design des Sozialismus ", Berlin |
07/2023 | Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Science "Life-Building. On Metabolic Structures, Energetic Art, and Dynamic Architecture in the Early Soviet Period", Berlin |
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03/2023 | Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1, Lausanne |
Other Research Activities
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