CV : Adam Przywara

This is an abbreviated version of my CV; for a full version, click: here.

Curriculum Vitae

Contact
adam.przywara[at]unifr.ch
przywara.adam[at]gmail.com

Education
2022   PhD in Architecture, University of Manchester (Passed without corrections)
2016   MPhil Architecture History, The Bartlett, UCL (Distinction)
2015   BA History of Art, University of Warsaw

Academic Positions
2023-2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, SNSF-funded Project ‘Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing with Reused Building Materials’, University of Fribourg
2019-2021 Teaching Assistant, Department of Architecture, University of Manchester

Awards and Fellowships
2024   Theodor Fischer Award, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
2024   Best Architectural Event of 2023, Architectural Award of the Mayor of Warsaw
2020   Research Fellowship, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau
2018   Bauhaus Lab Fellow, Bauhaus Foundation Dessau

Publications
Edited Books
2023 Zgruzowstanie. Przeszłość i przyszłość ruin w architekturze, Warsaw: Museum of Warsaw, 184 pages, ISBN 978-83-964731-8-9.
2019 The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector, with Phillip Denny (joint authorship), Leipzig: Spector Books, 189 pages, ISBN 978-3-95905-284-9.

Chapters
2023 ‘R for Rubble’, in: Picard M., Brenchat-Aguilar A., Carroll T., Gilbert J., Miller N. eds., Wastiary, London: UCL Press, 72-74.
2018 ‘Frontiers of Prefabrication/Prefabrication on Frontiers’, in Denny P., Przywara A. eds.,The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector, Leipzig: Spector Books, 45-63.

Peer-reviewed articles
2024 ‘Mining for embodied coal: Building material reuse in the postwar reconstruction of Warsaw’, Ardeth 13 (pub. exp. September).
2018 ‘Rubble Warsaw, 1945—1946: Urban Landscaping and Architectural Remains’, Ikonotheka 28, pp. 121-137.

Exhibitions
2023   “Warsaw 1945-1949: Rising from Rubble”, Museum of Warsaw (curator)
2019   “See You After the Revolution. 100 years of Bauhaus”, Arsenal Gallery Bialystok (co-curator)
2018   “The Art of Joining: Designing the Universal Connector”, Bauhaus Foundation Dessau (co-curator)

Conferences and Workshops
2024   ‘Second Materiality of Warsaw’, 56th ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, November 21-24
2024   ‘The Materiality of Ruins’, International Congress European War Ruins and Their Uses (19th - 21st century), Caen Memorial, September 25-27
2023   ‘Constructing an integrated historical perspective on material reuse in architecture’, (In)visible Reuse Young Researcher Symposium, EPFL Lausanne, September 12
2021   ‘Concrete Rubble’, Society of Architectural Historians Annual International Conference, Montréal, April 14-18
2021   ‘Postwar Aggregates for the Socialist Future’, European Architectural History Network Conference, Edinburgh, June 3

Invited Lectures
2024   ‘Rebuilding from Rubble’, Building Back Better International Workshop, Warsaw, January 30
2023   ‘Rubble+’, Atelier Waldrup, USI Mendrisio, October 27
2023   ‘Circular Reconstruction’, Studio Emerson, ETH Zurich, October 15
2023   ‘Turning Rubble into Concrete’, Course Exile and Reconstruction, HSLU Luzern, April 3

Convened Events
2025   (forthcoming) Panel ‘Architectural Histories of Building Material Reuse in Modernity’,Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1-3 (with Lionel Devlieger)
2023   Workshop Deconstructing Circularity. Actors and Practices in the Contemporary Reuse of Building Materials in Urban Contexts, University of Fribourg, October 18-20 (with Madlen Kobi, Elena Sischarenco and Vanessa Feri)
2021   What’s the matter in architecture?, MARG Talks, University of Manchester, February 26 (with Kim Förster)

Membership
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), www.sah.org
European Architecture Research Network (EAHN), www.eahn.org
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), www.aseees.org

updated 01.07.24