Anna Sokolina

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 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), 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), and "Biology in Architecture" in The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (New York: Routledge, 2016, 2019).

She was the first independent woman curator of itinerant Paper Architecture 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.

Sokolina graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture (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), and holds a Certificate in Arts Administration from New York University School of Professional Studies (2001).

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, 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.