Short CV
- since 2024 Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the DFG Research Training Group “Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialization of Housing“
- 2022-2024 Master in Urban Studies (Governing the Large Metropolis) at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Thesis: “If it must be outstanding, it probably won’t be representative. Mumbai’s ubiquitous housing typology and the World Heritage Paradigm” supervised by Prof. Sukriti Issar (Centre for Research on Social Inequalities))
- 2018–2022 Bachelor Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Thesis: “Bänkemanifest: Alltägliches Erben“ supervised by Prof. Hans-Rudolf Meier and Marcell Hajdu (Chair of Monument Conservation and Building History))
- Internships and/or work experience at Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Berlin), UNESCO – Nominations Unit (Paris), TICCIH-Austria (Vienna), Goethe Institute (Budapest), Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research (Dresden), Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Budapest)
Research focus
- Everyday heritage and value discourses
- Post-socialist spatial production
- Housing policy and familialism
- Authoritarian urbanism
Recent projects
Historical Continuities in Housing Construction under National Authoritarian Rule – The Single-Family House as a Product of Two Regimes in Hungary – supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Zupan und Prof. Dr. Stephan Lessenich
My current research examines the historical contingency of the societal regime of housing provision in Hungary after 1956. By historical contingency, I do not refer merely to the emergence of building typologies as remnants of the past. I use the term to describe the complex social, political, and economic processes that are central to the production of the current housing regimes. These include, among other factors, institutional path dependencies, regulatory responses to housing shortages, ideologies of private property, and the reproduction of social inequalities.
A central focus of my research is the Kádár Cube, a single-family house typology from the state-capitalist People’s Republic of Hungary, as well as the current housing subsidy program, CSOK (Családi Otthonteremtési Támogatás), in contemporary Hungary. Their analysis provides an approach to understanding the formation of Hungary’s existing societal housing regime in its historicity. Through themes of everyday life, path dependency, and seriality, my research also draws connections to heritage studies.