Professor, School of Architecture Pratt Institute
Masha Panteleyeva’s work explores the intersections of architecture, politics, collectivity, and ecology. She received her Ph.D. in Architectural History from Princeton University and is currently teaching in the Undergraduate Department at Pratt School of Architecture. Her work has been supported by the Graham Foundation and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and has been featured at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the State Moscow Architecture Museum. Her recent book, New Element of Settlement: City of the Future, examines the evolution of Soviet formal architectural language as a discursive tool used to outline fundamental differences between the socialist urban fabric and its Western counterpart. One of her ongoing projects is a documentary film (currently in production), which investigates the politics of urban planning in contemporary Russia. Through personal narratives and oral histories of architects, the film offers a human-centered perspective on the ideological shifts embedded in post-Soviet built environments. She is currently working on her second book project, Thawing Landscapes: Nature, City, and Capital, which examines the emergence of socialist ecological thinking within late Soviet architectural theory and practice. Focusing on the late 1970s, the research explores how concepts of “landscape” and “nature” were understood not only in terms of environmental concerns or territory, but as form-defining forces with political agency.
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