is a PhD candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture + Art program. She studies late 19th and 20th-century European art and architecture. Her research explores the relationships among industry, economies, and culture, particularly the design and planning of cultural institutions and the concepts of “regional” and “international” in the architecture of the Soviet Union. Recently, she has written on interwar machine and craft aesthetics, the impact of social traumas on urban form, theories of organization and their uptake in architectural and artistic practices, the exchange of ideas between East and West German architects, and the politics of preserving modern architecture in Cold War Germany