Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.

Preferred citation:

The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.

Summary

Extent:
5.2 Cubic Feet 6 boxes; 2 oversize folders
Creator:
Sokolina, Anna P.
Abstract:
Anna P. Sokolina is an architectural historian. The majority of the collection consists of her publications, professional documentation, conferences participation, exhibit catalogs, teaching materials, and materials related to her involvement in the International Archive of Women in Architecture.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials. Reproduction or digitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using our reproduction/digitization form: http://bit.ly/scuareproduction. Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can be requested using our publication/exhibition form: http://bit.ly/scuapublication. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.

Background

Scope and content:

The majority of the collection consists of publications written by Anna Sokolina featured in books, magazines and newspapers in Germany, Russia, and the United States. The collection also contains her professional documentation, conferences in which Sokolina participated, and some conference papers that Sokolina was invited to present. The collection also includes catalogs from exhibitions that she curated while working at various museums starting in 1997, materials related to her involvement as honorary advisor to the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA), syllabi, teaching materials, dissertation, thesis, research, and artwork.

Brief biography, Curriculum vitae, Lists of publications, exhibit catalogs, talks at conferences, and exhibitions

Brief biography, Curriculum vitae, Lists of publications, exhibit catalogs, lectures and talks at conferences, and exhibitions

Faculty listing from website, Listings in Miami U. newsletters, Curriculum vitae, Lists of publications, exhibit catalogs, talks at conferences, and exhibitions

"The Basic Contradictions of Postmodernism," August 1980

"Metaphors of Arata Isozuki," 1981; "The Search of the Origins," 1982; "Ironies of Charles Moore," 1983

"Hermann Henselmann," November-December 1987

"Residential Construction in East Germany: The Experiments of the 1980s," May 1989; Book Review, February 1990; "The Ground Floor of the City," July 1990; "Ralf Niebergall," November 1990

"Industrial Interpretation of Traditions: Urban Design of the 1980s in East Germany," Special Issue #3, 1990

"Die Neue Freiheit" (The New Freedom)

"Von der Papierarchitektur zum Joint venture" (From Paper Architecture to Joint Venture), Dec. 28, 1992

"Die lange Krise der Architektur in Russland" (The Long Crisis in Russian Architecture), Oct. 1992; "Rußland nach dem Umbruch" (Russia after the Upheaval), Oct. 1993; "Ökologische Tendenzen in der russischen Architektur" (The Ecological Approach in Russian Architecture), Jan. 1994

"Die neue Freiheit: Nachgedanken zu Järna aus Moskau" Nov. 1992; "Jürg Spörri, Architekt, oder Nachprüfung der Vorliebe," July 1994

"Paper Architects and Secret Architecture: Planning and Building in the Crisis in Russia"

"Russlands Architekten verbünden sich" (Moscow's Architects Unite), Sept. 1993

"Wohnen in Moskau" (Living in Moscow), Feb. 1994; "Moskau nach dem Umbruch" (Moscow after the Upheaval), Feb. 1994; "Ökologische Tendenzen in der Architektur" (Ecological Trends in Architecture), Feb. 1994; "Architektur-Galerien in Manhattan," (Architectural Galleries in Manhattan), June 1996

"Paper Architecture," Vol. 87, No. 30.115, February 3-4, 1996

"The Tabakman Museum," Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1997

"Architecture and Anthroposophy," No. 21, 1997

Most of the issues have references to Sokolina's professional activities

"Architecture and the State: Moscow Urban Concepts After Socialism," Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 2002

"Conflicting Visions of National Perspective in Contemporary Russian Architecture"

Review of Sokolina's book by Prof. Vladimir L. Khait; First Russian architectural publication to publish the IAWA call for submissions

"Architecture as Collateral Damage: Was Memorials and the Rebirth of Patriotism in Soviet Russia"; Web site description of CCCP lecture; Outline for IAWA talk with images used for illustration

"The Secret Star of the Outer Space Program: Galina Balashova, First Architect of Spaceship Interiors," 2018

"Expanding the Archive: Caryatides of Russian Architecture," 2019

Life to Architecture: Milka Bliznakov Academic Papers and Records of Women in Russian Architecture at the IAWA

Includes images of 20 art works by Sokolina; Exhibition Notice, "70th Anniversary of the Great October," anniversary exhibition by Architect's Union of the USSR held in the People's House of Friendship, Moscow, 1987

Young Russia, March 1997; Evgeny Mikhnov Voitenko, May 1997; Valery Yurlov (Sokolina co-wrote catalog), June 1997

Catalog entries for "Journeys of the Imagination: From the Former Soviet Union to the United States" with curators Anna Sokolina and Jennifer Cahn, 2000-2001

Correspondence with Russian women architects and with IAWA, 2002-2007; Mailing list of Russian women architects, their heirs, and architectural institutions, 2007; List of gifts to the IAWA from Russian women architects and Sokolina, 2007

Introduction to Studio Design (2 classes); Independent Studies: Alternative Architecture; Russian Art and Architecture II: From 1860 to Present; Russian Art and Architecture I: From Byzantine Period to 1860

Russian Art and Architecture I: From Byzantine Period to 1860; Russian Art and Architecture II: From 1860 to Present

Biographical / historical:

Anna Sokolina was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). In 1980 she received her Masters in Architecture degree from the Moscow Architectural Institute and in 1992 her Ph.D. from the Russian Academic Research Institute for the Theory of Architecture and Urban Design. In 2001, Sokolina completed the Certificate Program in Arts Administration at New York University SCPS Department of Arts, Sciences and Humanities. She interned at the Art Commission of the City of New York; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York.

Since 1986, Sokolina has worked on various architectural exhibitions. The first, entitled "Concepts of Soviet Architecture 1917-1987" held in West Berlin, was developed by the Central Academic Research Institute for the Theory of Architecture and Urban Design in partnership with the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow and the Janus Foundation in Berlin. Following the fall of the USSR, Sokolina worked on international exhibitions for the Moscow Young Architects Association. In 1992-93, she curated traveling exhibitions "New Architectural Concepts from Moscow" at Green Berlin Hall, Germany, and at the Ecole d'Architecture de Strasbourg, France; and in 1994, "Art Russia" at the Gallery Buergerhaus (City Hall) Groebenzell, Germany. Sokolina was also the curator/director of the Tabakman Museum in Hudson, NY. Her responsibilities included: the inauguration of the museum's eight galleries totaling 9,000 square feet, several permanent exhibitions and an art shop. From 1996-99 as an independent curator, Sokolina organized art exhibitions at the Steiner Foundation in Harlemville, NY, the New York Open Center in Soho, and at the American Education Center in Rego Park, NY. From 2000-2002 Sokolina was co-curator to a touring exhibition "Journeys of the Imagination: From the former Soviet Union to the United States" at Exhibits USA, Mid-America Arts Alliance. She volunteers for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Education Department.

Sokolina has also edited a monographic anthology, Architecture and Anthroposophy, in which twenty-seven distinguished subject specialists wrote chapters on philosophically and spiritually inspired trends in organic architecture and art of the 20th century. In 2002 Sokolina started working on a collaborative non-profit project, Russian Art 1860-1940 in Western Collections, Information Database on the Internet funded by a number of donors including the S.R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Judith Rothschild Foundation, and Galerie Gmurzynska in Cologne. The project aims to develop a web-based bilingual database of information on Russian art to serve as a resource for educational and scholarly research, and for national and international exchange of knowledge. As of 2007, Sokolina is an assistant professor at the Architecture and Interior Design at Miami University in Ohio.

Acquisition information:
The Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection was donated to the IAWA at Special Collections in June 2002 by its creator. Additions were made to the collection in October 2003, November 2005, and October 2007.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement and description of the Anna P. Sokolina Architectural Collection was performed in 2002. Additional materials were integrated into the collection in December 2007 and in October 2016.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged five series, each of which is arranged in chronological order.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard