“Not Yet Monuments: Protocols for Memories Awaiting Form”

Ringvorlesung: Azra Akšamija

Azra Akšamija is an artist and architectural historian. She is Professor of Contemporary Art and Head of the Institute for Contemporary Art (IZK) at Graz University of Technology, and Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she directed the Art, Culture and Technology Program from 2021 to 2026 and founded the Future Heritage Lab in 2016.

She studied architecture at Graz University of Technology and Princeton University and received her PhD in the history, theory and criticism of architecture from MIT in 2011. Working at the intersection of art, design, history and historic preservation, she approaches research through art and art through research. Her work examines the conditions that allow cultural forms and craft knowledge to go on being made through ruptures such as war, displacement, colonialism, industrialization and ecological change.

Recent works include Eulensicht in Wuppertal (2025) and a memorial at Landesklinikum Mauer-Öhling. Her projects have been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Manifesta 7, the Liverpool Biennial, the Royal Academy of Arts London, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, the Secession Vienna and the Aga Khan Museum Toronto, and Kunsthaus Graz presented her midcareer retrospective in 2024. Her books include Mosque Manifesto (2015), Museum Solidarity Lobby (2019), Architecture of Coexistance: Building Pluralism (2020) and Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp (MIT Press, 2021).

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