Biography

Alla Vronskaya is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at Kassel University. Her research explores the intersections between the theory of modern architecture and the history of knowledge, particularly in Eurasia and Eastern Europe. Her first book, Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2022, exploring the intersections between architecture, labor management, and human sciences in modern Russia. Vronskaya is also a regional editor for the former Soviet Union in Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture. She currently working on a book manuscript devoted to the shifting relationships between the city and the country in the context of social transformations and upheavals, demographic crises, and colonization processes in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union between the 1850s and the 1970s.

Vronskaya received her Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014. She was Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2023/2024), Herodotus Fund member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA (2019/2020), and a recipient of residential fellowships from the Getty Research Institute and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, as well as MIT Presidential Fellowship and the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, among other awards. Prior to joining Kassel University, she was an assistant professor at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and a visiting lecturer at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

Contact

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34127 Kassel
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vronskaya@uni-kassel.de