Adam Przywara is an architectural historian, and curator, based in Zurich. His work investigates ruined built environments, with a particular focus on building material reuse, recycling, and wasting in historical and contemporary architecture. He studied architectural history at the Bartlett, UCL, and completed his doctorate in architecture at the University of Manchester. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the SNFS-funded project “Urban Bricolage: Mining, Designing, and Constructing with Reused Building Materials” hosted at the University of Fribourg. Adam was a fellow at the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau (2018), the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2020), and a recipient of the Theodor Fischer Award (2024). He curated numerous architectural history exhibitions, most notably 'Rising from Rubble: Warsaw 1945-1949' at the Museum of Warsaw (2023). He is currently completing a monograph examining the transformative encounter between architecture industry and rubble during the postwar reconstruction of Warsaw.
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