Prof. Alla Vronskaya, Ph.D.
History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Kassel
Alla Vronskaya is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on the theory of modern architecture, particularly in the Soviet Union and other state-socialist countries. Her book “Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences” (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) explores intersections between architecture, labor management, and human sciences in modern Russia. She has also worked on gender history of socialist architecture as a regional editor for the former Soviet Union in “Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture” and the head of Women Building Socialism research project. She is currently working on her second monograph, devoted to Soviet architecture’s encounter with climatic and geographic diversity of the country during the Cold War.
