Anna Sokolina, PhD is an architect, curator, Routledge featured author, founding chair of SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group, Advisory Board member of H-SHERA Network, and IAWA Honorary advisor. Research focus: holistic genealogies, women’s contribution, and trajectories of global transitions in architecture; interdisciplinary inquiry to broadening networks across continents by advocating women’s work.
Sokolina holds a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture, Landmarks Restoration and Preservation from VNIITAG, Moscow, and a Certificate in Arts Administration from New York University SPS. Construction practicum at Moscow Silicate Plant; interned at Guggenheim Museum New York, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and NYC Public Design Commission at The Mayor’s Office, contributed at The Morgan Library and Museum NYC and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Education Department. Invited by European Academy of the Urban Environment EA.UE Berlin in the UNESCO Program “Sustainable Settlements” she lectured and curated itinerant Paper Architecture exhibitions with support by Senate Berlin, Grün Berlin GMBh, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Strasbourg ENSAS, Bürgerhaus Gröbenzell Galerie, and was interviewed by RIAS Berlin.
She published over 100 papers, presented and chaired sessions at 86 academic conferences, and received 17 grants and recognitions. Her artwork is housed in 23 public and private collections; among recent publications are: The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (ed, 2021), “Breaking the Silence” (2021), “Biology in Architecture” (2016, 2019), Architecture and Anthroposophy (ed, 2001, 2010, 2019). In-progress: monograph Architecture of the GDR: The Utopia Code, and a chapter in an edited anthology.
