Ana Miljački-Architecture Lecture Series at the CED at UC Berkeley

Ana Miljački is a critic, curator and Associate Professor of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she teaches history, theory and design. She has previously taught studios and seminars at Columbia University, City College in New York and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Ph.D. (2007) in history and theory of architecture from Harvard University, an M.Arch. from Rice University and a B.A. from Bennington College. Her research interests range from the role of architecture and architects in the Cold War era Eastern Europe, through the theories of postmodernism in late socialism to politics of contemporary architectural production. Miljački was part of the three member curatorial team, with Eva Frank i Gilabert and Ashley Schafer, of the US Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, where their Biennale project, titled OfficeUS, critically examined the last century of US architectural offices; their professionalization and their concomitant global contribution. On top of editing OfficeUS Agenda (June 2014) and OfficeUS Atlas (February 2015), Miljački has recently edited together the proceedings of Under the Influence conference she had organized at MIT in 2013, guest edited Praxis 14: True Stories, and curated and produced an exhibit on the role of copying and originality in architecture, Fair Use with her students at MIT. Its latest instantiation, UnFair Use, co-curated with Sarah Hirschman was on the view at the Center for Architecture in New York from September 2015 through January 2016. Her book The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle 1938-1968 will be published with Routledge's Architext series in January 2017 and she is currently preparing The Terms of Appropriation collection of historical essays with Amanda Reeser Lawrence, also with Routeldge.