Anna Sokolina

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Anna Sokolina
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Anna Sokolina, PhD, at the 2016 Annual Symposium of the International Archive of Women in Architecture, Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Blacksburg, Virginia, March 25, 2016.
Born1956 (age 65–66)
Leningrad, Russia
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMoscow Institute of Architecture, New York University SPS
OccupationArchitect, author, historian, and curator

Anna Sokolina (née Anna Petrovna Guz, born November 3, 1956, in Leningrad, Russia), is an architect, author, editor, and curator, Founding Chair of Women in Architecture AG of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH),[1] founder and co-chair (with Barbara Ann Opar) of SAH WiA Registers Committee, Board Honorary Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)[2] and Advisory Board Member of The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture (ed. Lori Brown and Karen Burns, forthcoming). Her research is focused on women's narratives in architecture[3] and on transformative trends in architecture that ignite a cross-disciplinary discourse. Other areas of study include Paper Architecture, architecture and utopia, architecture and spiritual science, architecture genealogies of memory, recent-century built environments in the US, Europe, and Russia.

Biography[]

Sokolina graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture[4] (1980), attained a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture and Landmarks Preservation from VNIITAG, the theory/history flagship branch of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (1992),[5] 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 on the advisory board of Artmargins, for 9 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/Research Associate at CNIITIA/VNIITAG, and Curator of Exhibitions at Tabakman Museum in Hudson, NY. While a faculty member at Miami University Department of Architecture + Interior Design, she curated the Cage Gallery, served on Council on Diversity, REEE Curriculum Committee, Havighurst Advisory Committee, and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee.

Anna Sokolina. "Aerial View: New York City". 2005. Series: Aerial Views based on urban masterplans, 30x40 inches, mixed media on canvas, exhibited in 2007 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Anna Sokolina. "Aerial View: Moscow". 2004. Series: Aerial Views based on urban masterplans, 20x22 inches, mixed media on plywood, exhibited in 2005 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Anna Sokolina. "Aerial View: St. Petersburg." 1999. Series: Aerial Views based on urban masterplans. 22x40 inches, mixed media on canvas, exhibited in 2003 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art..

As the first independent woman curator from post-communist Moscow (1992–94), she brought itinerant Paper Architecture[6] exhibitions under contract with Moscow Association of Junior Architects (President: Serguei Timofeev), to Germany and France with support by the Senate of Berlin, Grün Berlin GMBh, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg (ENSAS), and Bürgerhaus Gröbenzell, and was first female lecturer from Russia invited 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.[7]

The International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech holds a collection of her professional records, 29 artworks, dissertation thesis and 25 presentation boards,[8] and correspondence with the IAWA Founder Prof. Milka Bliznakov (Series VI, 39 large envelopes, multiple boxes), as well as over 25 collections of women architects that she solicited for the Archive. As an artist, she participated in 19 exhibitions, 5 of them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; her 104 artworks are housed in 23 public and private collections in the US, Europe, and Russia.

Anna Sokolina published over 90 research papers, presented at 84 academic conferences, received 17 grants, scholarships and awards, and is affiliated with 15 professional societies. Publications include: The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (editor, 2021),[9] Architecture and Anthroposophy (editor, hardcover: M.: KMK, 2001 and 2010, e-access M.: BDN, 2019) and Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report (2019, rev. edn. 2021),[10] She works on her book, Building Utopia: Architecture of the GDR and editing a book of the IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov, In Search for a Style: The Great Experiment in Architecture 1917–1932.

Select publications[]

  • Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367232344
  • Sokolina, Anna. Architecture and Anthroposophy. [Arkhitektura i Antroposofiia.] Ed., contributor, transl., photogr. Hardcover M: KMK, 2001 ISBN 5873170746; and 2010 ISBN 5873176604, electronic access M: BDN, 2019.
  • Sokolina, Anna P. Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report. “Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Academic Papers and Records of Women in Russian Architecture at the IAWA.” New Haven: alternative spaces, 2019, revised edition 2021. Library of Congress Copyright Registration No: TXu 2-145-653.
  • Sokolina, Anna P. "Biology in Architecture: The Goetheanum Case Study." In The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, edited by Charissa Terranova and Meredith Tromble, 52–70. New York: Routledge, 2016; 2019.
  • Sokolina, Anna. "Milka Bliznakov, 1927–2010." Slavic Review. Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 70, no.2 (2011): 498–499.
  • Sokolina, Anna. Poems [Stikhi]. Ills by author, photograph by A. Gennadiev. New York: Telex, 1998. Library of Congress Cat. No: 99232023.

References[]

  1. ^ Society of Architectural Historians Women in Architecture AG "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ International Archive of Women in Architecture "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Academia.edu: Anna Sokolina "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Moscow Institute of Architecture official site "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-09-05. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ Institutional site of NIITAG "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Sokolina, Anna. "Alternative Identities: Conceptual Transformations in Soviet and Post-Soviet Architecture." ARTMargins Online: Articles "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-08-01. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) official site "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ Guide to the Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection No MS2002-05 at the IAWA, Special Collections, University Libraries and Archives, Virginia Tech "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2020-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2021. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ Sokolina, Anna P. Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report. New Haven: alternative spaces, 2019, revised ed. 2021. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links[]

  • [1] Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367232344
  • [2] Anna Sokolina, page in the Dynamic National Archive (DNA) of the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation (BWAF)
  • [3], [4] Sokolina, Anna P. "Biology in Architecture." In The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, eds. Carissa N. Terranova and Meredith Tromble. New York: Routledge, 2016. ISBN 978-1-138-91934-1 New York: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367873394
  • [5] Sokolina, Anna, ed. Architecture and Anthroposophy. [Arkhitektura i Antroposofiia.] Hardcover, 1st edition, M.: KMK, 2001. ISBN 978-5873170746 2nd edition M.: KMK, 2010. ISBN 978-5-87317-660-1
  • [6] Sokolina, Anna, ed. Architecture and Anthroposophy. E-access M: BDN 2019.
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