09.07.2026
Excited to discuss my draft paper, Cementing Waste: Recycling and the Globalization of Lightweight Concrete Blocks during the Cold War, at the workshop organised by Tetiana Perga and Prof. Heike Weber at the Chair of History of Technology, TU Berlin.
26.06.2026
Together with Fatema Tasmia, we are thrilled to present and discuss our draft paper, Building Cheap Labor: Postcolonial Architecture in Dhaka and the Making of the Global Construction Workforce, at the first summer workshop of the Cost of Architecture Network. Looking forward to the discussion!
19.06.2026
Today at the 9th Biennial Conference of the European Architectural History Network in Aarhus #EAHN2026, I had the pleasure of co-chairing, together with Kim Förster, the panel Excavating the Landfill: Towards an Environmental History of Architecture's Waste. Read more about this collaborative project [here].
15.06.2026
I’m delighted to see The Mound: A Laboratory of Modern Design finally published! The volume includes my chapter historicising the Warsaw Uprising Mound—the key postwar rubble landfill not only in Poland but across Europe.
01.06.2026
It’s official: I’m joining the 2026–27 cohort of Linda Hall Library Fellows. This generous support will enable my research for my second book project, Housing Waste.
01.05.2026
I'm on Google Scholar [click]
10.12.2025
I've updated my CV section: click
01.12.2025
BIG NEWS: Today I am starting my five-year (sic!) postdoc in the SNSF-funded project 'The Battle of Materials: Commodity “Research and Propaganda” and the Road Towards Immoderate Consumption, 1900–1980' lead by Prof. Moritz von Brescius at the Institute of Global European Studies, University of Basel.
07.11.2025
I'm super exicited to be part of the Material Ecologies of Design Network, convening next week for its first meeting titled 'Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, and Limits' at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Thank you, Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Falla for the invitation!
10.10.2025
Przywara, Adam. 2025. “Wartime Circularity: Adapting Buildings, Salvaging Materials, and Designing Supply Chains for Ukraine.” Urban Research & Practice, October, 1–18. doi:10.1080/17535069.2025.2571101.
01.07.2025
The special issue of Zeithistorische Forschungen is out, and inside you will find a collaborative article we've authored with Madlen Kobi titled “Circular Economy as Human-Material Relation" - it's [Open Access] so make sure to check it out.
10.06.2025
I’m extremely excited to begin the Theories of Architecture Fellowship at TU Delft. Tomorrow, I will deliver a public lecture, and on Friday, we will meet for a PhD seminar I’ve conceived on the production of nature in architecture [info here].
More about the ToA fellowship program: here.
27.05.2025
“The Right to Ruins” is out on e-flux Architecture!
09.05.2025
I’m so glad to see it out there! Our take on Charles Jencks’ legendary chronogram of architecture is now online on E-Flux Architecture, and next week you can see an exhibition version of the piece at CIVA Brussels. Please join us at the symposium and the opening on Tuesday!
01.05.2025
My doctoral thesis received the 2025 SAH David B. Brownlee Dissertation Award! I'm extremly honoured and grateful for this distinction! You can read the jury's commendation here.
23.04.2025
If you're attending SAH 2025, be sure to join the session we've convened with Lionel Devlieger: Architectural Histories of Building Material Reuse in Modernity. Room 216, Hilton Atlanta, 11:00 AM on May Day.
22.04.2025
Tomorrow at the Hochschule München I’ll discuss circular reconstruction at the course run by Prof. Jonathan Banz (Bauen im Bestand, Bauaufnahme und Denkmalpflege).
08.04.2025
Vítejte v Praze! Talking about rubble in VI PER tonight - see you there!
06.04.2025
It was an intensive week at TU Wien! Thank you, Tina Gregoric and Thomas Amann for the invitation to teach a 'Critical Materiality' studio, and Jade Apeck for a great collab. Looking forward to seeing the course outcome in May.
16.03.2025
I'm starting a three-month fellowship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte as a recipient of the Theodor Fischer Award 2024. Reach out If you are around in Munich between tomorrow and June. Find me here.
10.03.2025
This Thursday: Transitioning Architecture Symposium organised by Kim Förster and Léa-Catherine Szacka at Manchester Architecture Research Group. Check out the program here.
In other news: Gabriele Neri and Alessandro Benetti organise an exciting conference on building material reuse. Make sure to check the call, and apply with your paper.
08.03.2025
Next Saturday, together with Jonathan Banz we are documenting the rubble of a WWII Falkturm in the Volkspark Friedrichshain (Berlin) as a part of FORECAST Festival. Reserve your tickets HERE and join us!
06.03.2025
This weekend I'll be speaking at the opening of an exhibition 'Taking More Than What's There to Give' curated by Alina Paias and comissioned by Lisbon Architecture Triennale and VI PER Gallery in Prague.
09.07.2024
With a proposal 'The Atlas of Ruderal Architecture' I've been selected to 2024 cohort of LINA Fellows — looking forward to meeting other fellows and members of the network during the conference in Sarajevo!
04.07.2024
Next week in Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte: Festvortrag Theodor-Fischer-Preis 2024.