Adam Przywara is an architectural historian, curator, and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He holds an MA in Architectural History and Theory from The Bartlett, UCL, and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis received two of the most prestigious awards in the field: the Theodor Fischer Award (2024) and the SAH David B. Brownlee Dissertation Award (2025). He has curated numerous architectural exhibitions, including the major historical show Rising from Rubble: Warsaw 1945–1949 (Museum of Warsaw, 04–09.23), which received the Architectural Prize of the Mayor of Warsaw. He is currently finalising his first monograph, Circular Reconstruction: Reuse, Recycling, Landfilling in Postwar Architecture (forthcoming 2027). In Basel, Adam is developing his second book-length project, which explores how, since the mid-19th century, the built environment has come to serve as a sink for industrial residues and pollution.
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