Anna Sokolina, PhD (née Anna Petrovna Guz) is an American architect, scholar, and curator, founding chair of Women in Architecture Affiliate Group (SAH WiA AG) of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)[1] and of SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee, founder and co-chair (with Barbara Ann Opar) of SAH WiA AG Registers Committee, Advisory Board member of The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture (editors Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns, forthcoming), and first elected honorary member serving on the Board of Advisors of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA).[2]

Anna Sokolina
Anna Sokolina, PhD, at the 2016 Annual Symposium of the International Archive of Women in Architecture, Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Blacksburg, Virginia, March 25, 2016.
Born	1956 (age 65–66)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	MARKHI and New York University SPS
Occupation	Architect, scholar, historian, and curator

Sokolina published over one hundred research papers, academic reviews and reports, chaired sessions and presented at 85 academic conferences, and received eighteen grants and recognitions. Her research is focused on women's narratives[3] and on transformative trends in architecture that ignite a cross-disciplinary discourse. Other areas of study include Paper Architecture, architecture and utopia, architecture and spiritual science, architecture genealogies of memory. Among her publications are: The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture (editor and contributor, 2021),[4] Architecture and Anthroposophy (editor, hardcover: M.: KMK, 2001 and 2010, e-access BDN, 2019), Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report (2019, rev. ed. 2021),[5] and "Biology in Architecture" in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (New York: Routledge, 2016, 2019).

Biography

Sokolina graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture[6] (1980), attained a PhD in Theory and History of Architecture, Landmarks Restoration and Preservation from VNIITAG, the theory/history branch of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (1992),[7] and holds a Certificate in Arts Administration from New York University School of Professional Studies (2001).

She interned at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and New York City Public Design Commission at the NYC Mayor's Office, and has contributed on Editorial Board of Artmargins, for nine years at the Office of Research of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Education Department, and at the Morgan Library & Museum. She worked as an architect at CNIITIA, research associate at VNIITAG, and curator of exhibitions at Tabakman Museum in Hudson, NY. While a faculty member at Miami University Department of Architecture + Interior Design, she curated the Cage Architecture Gallery, served on the Council on Diversity and Inclusion, REEE Curriculum Committee, Havighurst Advisory Committee, and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, and organized gifts to Miami University King Library, Virginia Tech University Library Special Collections, and Sächsische Landesbibliothek and TU Dresden.

She was the first independent woman curator of itinerant Paper Architecture[8] exhibitions in Germany and France (1992–94), with support by the Senate of Berlin, Grün Berlin GMBh, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg (ENSAS), and Bürgerhaus Gröbenzell, interviewed in direct broadcast by Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor RIAS, Berlin, and was first lecturer invited after the collapse of the USSR by the European Academy of the Urban Environment EA.UE Berlin in the UNESCO Program “Sustainable Settlements" (other lecturers: Lucien Kroll, Architect, Brussel, Belgium; Elke Pahl-Weber, Dipl. Ing., City Planner, Hamburg, Germany; John Thompson, Architect, London, England; Henry Beierlorzer, Dipl. Ing., City Planner, Gelsenkirchen, Germany), 1993. In 2016–20 she served as the first Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) liaison elected to SHERA Board.[9]

The International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech holds a collection of her professional records, sixty publications, 29 artworks, dissertation thesis and 25 presentation boards,[10] and correspondence with the IAWA founder Prof. Emerita Milka Bliznakov (Series VI, 39 large envelopes, multiple boxes), as well as over 25 collections of women architects that she solicited for the Archive. As an artist, she participated in nineteen exhibitions, five of them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; her 104 artworks are housed in 23 public and private collections. She works on her book, The Utopia Code: Architecture of the GDR, on a chapter in a planned academic anthology, and edits the volume of the IAWA founder Milka Bliznakov, In Search for a Style: The Great Experiment in Architecture 1917–1932.

Select publications

• Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367232344
• Sokolina, Anna. Architecture and Anthroposophy. [Arkhitektura i Antroposofiia.] Ed., contributor, transl., photogr. Hardcover M: KMK, 2001 ISBN 5873170746; and 2010 ISBN 5873176604, electronic access: BDN, 2019.
• Sokolina, Anna P. Milka Bliznakov Scholar Report. “Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Academic Papers and Records of Women in Russian Architecture at the IAWA.” New Haven: alternative spaces, 2019, revised edition 2021. Library of Congress Copyright Registration No: TXu 2-145-653.
• Sokolina, Anna P. "Biology in Architecture: The Goetheanum Case Study." In The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, edited by Charissa Terranova and Meredith Tromble, 52–70. New York: Routledge, 2016; 2019.
• Sokolina, Anna. "Milka Bliznakov, 1927–2010." Slavic Review. Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 70, no.2 (2011): 498–499.
• Sokolina, Anna. Poems [Stikhi]. Ills by author, photograph by A. Gennadiev. New York: Telex, 1998. Library of Congress Cat. No: 99232023.

References

External links

• Sokolina, Anna, ed. The Routledge Companion to Women Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367232344
• Anna Sokolina, page in the Dynamic National Archive (DNA) of the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation (BWAF)
• , Sokolina, Anna P. "Biology in Architecture." In The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, eds. Carissa N. Terranova and Meredith Tromble. New York: Routledge, 2016. ISBN 978-1-138-91934-1 New York: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367873394
• Sokolina, Anna, ed. Architecture and Anthroposophy. [Arkhitektura i Antroposofiia.] Hardcover, 1st edition, M.: KMK, 2001. ISBN 978-5873170746 2nd edition M.: KMK, 2010. ISBN 978-5-87317-660-1
• Sokolina, Anna, ed. Architecture and Anthroposophy. E-access BDN 2019.