Anna Sokolina Explained

Anna Sokolina
Alma Mater:VNIITAG, MARKHI, NYU
Nationality:American
Occupation:Architect, scholar, curator

Anna Sokolina, PhD (née Anna Petrovna Guz) is an American architect, scholar, and curator, Routledge featured author, Founding chair of Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (SAH WiA AG) of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH),[1] Advisory Board member of H-SHERA Network,[2] and Honorary advisor of International Archive of Women in Architecture.[3]

Sokolina published over one hundred research papers, academic reviews and reports, chaired sessions and presented at 88 academic conferences and meetings and received eighteen grants and recognitions. Her research is focused on the interdisciplinary inquiry to advocating women's work across borders[4] and on holistic genealogies, women's agency, and trajectories of global transitions in architecture. Other areas of study include Paper Architecture, architecture and utopia, architecture and spiritual science. Among her publications are: The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (editor and contributor, 2021, 2024),[5] Architecture and Anthroposophy (editor, 2001 and 2010, e-access 2019), Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report (2019, rev. ed. 2021),[6] "Breaking the Silence" (New York and London: Routledge, 2021, 2024), "Modernist Topologies: The Goetheanum In-Building” in Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), and "Biology in Architecture" in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (New York and London: Routledge, 2016, 2019).

Biography

Sokolina graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture[7] (Architecture, 1980), attained a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture, Landmarks Restoration and Preservation from VNIITAG, the theory/history branch of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (1992),[8] and holds a Certificate in Arts Administration from New York University School of Professional Studies (2001).

She interned at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and New York City Public Design Commission at the NYC Mayor's Office and has contributed for nine years at the Office of Research of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Education Department, and at the Morgan Library & Museum. She worked as an architect at CNIITIA, research associate at VNIITAG, and curator of exhibitions at Tabakman Museum of Contemporary Art in Hudson, NY. While a faculty member at Miami University Department of Architecture + Interior Design, she curated the Cage Architecture Gallery, served on the Council on Diversity and Inclusion, REEE Curriculum Committee, Havighurst Advisory Committee, and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, and organized gifts to Miami University King Library, Virginia Tech University Library Special Collections, and Sächsische Landesbibliothek and TU Dresden.

She was first independent woman curator of itinerant Paper Architecture[9] exhibitions in Germany and France (1992–94), with support by the Senate of Berlin, Grün Berlin GMBh, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg (ENSAS), and Bürgerhaus Gröbenzell, interviewed in direct broadcast by Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor RIAS, Berlin, and was first lecturer invited after the collapse of the USSR by the European Academy of the Urban Environment EA.UE Berlin in the UNESCO Program “Sustainable Settlements" (other lecturers: Lucien Kroll, Architect, Brussel, Belgium; Elke Pahl-Weber, Dipl. Ing., City Planner, Hamburg, Germany; John Thompson, Architect, London, England; Henry Beierlorzer, Dipl. Ing., City Planner, Gelsenkirchen, Germany), 1993. In 2016–20 she served as the first Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) liaison elected to SHERA Board.[10]

The International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech holds a collection of her professional records, sixty publications, 29 artworks, dissertation thesis and 25 presentation boards,[11] and correspondence with the IAWA founder Prof. Emerita Milka Bliznakov (Series VI, 39 large envelopes, multiple boxes), as well as over 25 collections of women architects that she solicited, composed and sponsored for the Archive. As an artist, she participated in nineteen exhibitions, five of them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Employees Art Shows; her 105 artworks are housed in 23 public and private collections. She works on her book, The Utopia Code: Architecture of the GDR, on two chapters in planned academic anthologies, and edits the volume of the IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov, In Search for a Style: The Great Experiment in Architecture 1917–1932.

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Notes and References

  1. Society of Architectural Historians Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Web site: SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201017003400/https://sahwomeninarchitectureaffiliategroup.sah.hcommons.org/ . 2020-10-17 . 2020-10-16.
  2. H-SHERA: Staff Listing for the H-SHERA Network Web site: H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online . 2023-04-30.
  3. International Archive of Women in Architecture Web site: A Guide to the Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection, 1980-2012 Sokolina, Anna P. Architectural Collection, Ms2002-051 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180521170124/http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt%2Fviblbv00230.xml%3Bquery%3D%3B . 2018-05-21 . 2020-10-16.
  4. Academia.edu: Web site: Anna Sokolina. Women in Architecture: Publications, Talks, Research Projects . live . https://independent.academia.edu/AnnaPSokolina . 2020-10-17 . 2020-10-16. Sokolina . Anna .
  5. Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 2024. Web site: The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20210513201729/https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Women-in-Architecture/Sokolina/p/book/9780367232344 . May 13, 2021 . 2021-05-13 .
  6. Sokolina, Anna P. Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report. New Haven: Alternative Spaces, 2019, revised ed. 2021, Book: (PDF) Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report | Anna Sokolina - Academia.edu . January 2019 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201017003421/https://www.academia.edu/39140431/Milka_Bliznakov_Scholar_Report . 2020-10-17 . 2020-10-17.
  7. Moscow Institute of Architecture official site Web site: МАРХИ - Московский архитектурный институт (Государственная академия) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200905175236/https://marhi.ru/ . 2020-09-05 . 2020-10-16.
  8. Institutional site of NIITAG Web site: Научно-исследовательский институт теории и истории архитектуры и градостроительства . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200227171332/http://www.niitiag.ru/ . 2020-02-27 . 2020-10-16.
  9. Sokolina, Anna. "Alternative Identities: Conceptual Transformations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Architecture." ARTMargins Online: Articles Web site: Alternative Identities: Conceptual Transformations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Architecture - ARTMargins . May 2001 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200801220245/https://artmargins.com/alternative-identities-conceptual-transformations-in-soviet-and-post-soviet-architecture/ . 2020-08-01 . 2020-10-16.
  10. Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) official site Web site: The Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture • SHERA . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201017003425/http://www.shera-art.org/ . 2020-10-17 . 2020-10-16.
  11. Guide to the Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection No MS2002-05 at the IAWA, Special Collections, University Libraries and Archives, Virginia Tech Web site: A Guide to the Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection, 1980-2012 Sokolina, Anna P. Architectural Collection, Ms2002-051 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308225619/https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_2232.xml;query=international%2520union%2520of%2520women%2520architects . 2016-03-08 . 2024-07-06.

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